Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war; and I fear and hope, and burn and am of ice.
Petrarch Quotes
1304–1374 Italy
Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) was an Italian Roman Catholic scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance.
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Also known as: Francesco Petrarca, Petrarca
83 quotes
Il Canzoniere (1351)
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
The Renaissance : Essays in Interpretation (1982)
To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
Understand me who can, for I understand myself.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations (1808)
Notable Thoughts About Women : A Literary Mosaic (1882)
Il Canzoniere (1351)
To those who are given to virtue, the boast of titles is wholly alien and distasteful.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
De remediis utriusque fortunae (1354)
Il Canzoniere (1351)
There is nothing in the world that cannot be done by verses.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Truly, we are dust and shadow; truly, desire is blind and greedy; truly, hope deceives.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
He knows that I am speaking the truth, for no worm ever gnawed old wood.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Ah new people, haughty beyond measure, irreverent to so great a mother!
Il Canzoniere (1351)
I am speaking to tell the truth, not from hatred or scorn of anyone.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Before the day of his last departure no man is to be called happy.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
The proverb "Love him who loves you" is an ancient fact.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Petrarch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.