Petrarch Quotes

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Virtue is health vice is sickness.