104 Quotes by Petrarch

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

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

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.

A good death does honour to a whole life.

From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

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.