Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Petrarch
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
Writer
Francesco Petrarca
Peetrarque
Petrarque
Francesco Peetrarque
Francesco Petrarch
Cutting
Desire
Inspirational
Subtract
Riches
Desires
Short
More quotes by Petrarch
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
Petrarch
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
Petrarch
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
Petrarch
Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.
Petrarch
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
Petrarch
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Petrarch
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Petrarch
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.
Petrarch
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
Petrarch
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Petrarch
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
Petrarch
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
Petrarch
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
Petrarch
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
Petrarch
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
Petrarch
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
Petrarch
