Francesco Petrarca

Poet Italian 1304 – 1374

Italian poet and founder of Petrarchism.

430 quotes

"Time is the substance I am made of."
Time
"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
Wisdom
"Who is the happy man? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature."
Happiness
"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride."
Peace
"Love without return is like a question without an answer."
Love
"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
Success
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
Courage
"It is better to desire what you do not possess than to possess what you do not desire."
Wisdom
"For the love of virtue, what great and splendid things would not any man gladly undertake?"
"I am not made for this world, and this world is not made for me."
Solitude
"Death is not sad. What is sad is to live without purpose."
Death
"The mind is the soul of life."
Knowledge
"Rarely do great beauties join with great virtues."
Beauty
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Perseverance
"How sweet is the joy of true friendship."
Friendship
"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
Hope
"We cannot live only for ourselves."
Kindness
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
Relationships
"Music is the intermediary between life and the spirit."
Music
"Nature's laws are the invisible hand that guides all."
Nature
"Art is the most noble consolation of humanity."
Art
"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."
"The wound of knowledge cannot be healed except through knowledge itself."
Education
"What is there to fear in death if one has lived fully?"
Fear
"Love is the path to all good things."
Love
"Better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."
Courage
"The beginning of health is knowing thyself."
Health
"Solitude is the seat of the mind."
Solitude
"To create a life that reflects your values requires courage."
Change
"The highest praise is to become acquainted with yourself."
Wisdom