Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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
Please
Ready
Christ
Desire
Death
Find
Writing
Praying
More quotes by Petrarch
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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
For style beyond the genius never dares.
Petrarch
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Petrarch
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Petrarch
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
Petrarch
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
Petrarch
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Petrarch
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
Petrarch
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
Petrarch
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
Petrarch
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
Petrarch
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Petrarch
