6 Quotes By 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 on anger

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch on beauty

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Petrarch on friendship

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Petrarch on health

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Petrarch on learning

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 on peace