There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
- Petrarch
More, Than, Nor, Agreeable
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
Envy, Avarice, Inhabit, Perpetual
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.
- Petrarch
Love, Which, Binds, Chiefly
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
- Petrarch
Love, Practical, Aged, Longs
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
- Petrarch
Love, How, How Much, Love Is
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
Desire, Living, Dangerous, Stricken
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
- Petrarch
Fortune, More, Other, Honorable
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
- Petrarch
Desires, Cut, Riches, Subtract
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
- Petrarch
Curiosity, Will, Often, Departure
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
- Petrarch
Good, Influenced, Almost, Report
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
- Petrarch
Deceived, Naught, Easily, Suspects
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.
- Petrarch
Love, Some, Always, Love Life
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
- Petrarch
Enemy, Himself, Than, Greater
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
- Petrarch
Tears, Touch, Within, Harp
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
- Petrarch
Beauty, Virtue, Dwell, Rarely
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
- Petrarch
Friendship, Suspicion, Cancer
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Petrarch
Mother, Cure, Sameness, Variety
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
- Petrarch
Ignorance, How, Bark, Rocks
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
- Petrarch
Earth, Fortune, How, Brings
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
- Petrarch
Some, Books, Led, Madness
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
- Petrarch
More, Thy, Thee, Mortal
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