104 Quotes by Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

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.

Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.