Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: vice, avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
—Petrarch
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us—avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
—Petrarch
Topics: Enemies, Peace, Enemy
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
—Petrarch
Topics: Merit, Worth, Fortune
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
—Petrarch
Topics: Pleasure
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
—Petrarch
Topics: Doing
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
—Petrarch
Topics: Doubt, Friendship
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
—Petrarch
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
—Petrarch
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
—Petrarch
Topics: Doubt
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
—Petrarch
Topics: Enemy, Enemies
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
—Petrarch
Topics: Character, Reputation
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
—Petrarch
Topics: Arguments, One liners, Grief
To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
—Petrarch
Topics: Love
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