Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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
May
Reaches
Right
Remain
Even
Seek
Long
Fame
Think
Glory
Thinking
Heaven
Awaits
Wish
Persuade
Another
Earthly
More quotes by Petrarch
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Petrarch
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
Petrarch
I have friends whose society is delightful to me they are persons of all countries and of all ages distinguished in war, in council, and in letters easy to live with, always at my command.
Petrarch
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
Petrarch
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.
Petrarch
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
Petrarch
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
Petrarch
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
Petrarch
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
Petrarch
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
Petrarch