Petrarch Quotes

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.

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

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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 to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

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