Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. Petrarch Read Quote
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. Petrarch Read Quote
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. Petrarch Read Quote
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. Petrarch Read Quote
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 Read Quote