Francesco Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch (July 20, 1304 July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance.

7 Quotes

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
— Francesco Petrarch

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.
— Francesco Petrarch

Man has no greater enemy than himself.
— Francesco Petrarch

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
— Francesco Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
— Francesco Petrarch

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
— Francesco Petrarch

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
— Francesco Petrarch