Francesco Petrarch

"The mind is the battlefield of all human struggles."

"To be forgotten is a fate worse than death for the ambitious soul."

"The greatest tragedy is a life unlived according to one's true nature."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that old examples and new experience cannot make it acceptable."

"Avoid as you would the plague a clergyman who is also a man of business."

"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"Go forward and make a great future for yourselves."

"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the enemy."

"Time does not diminish the great virtue of this book."

"A man who thinks only of himself and turns every thought toward self-interest will never find peace."

"The highest reward for your toil is not what you get for it, but what you become by it."

"Suspicion is the poison of friendship."

"My eyes are made dim with grief."

"I have been able to touch something eternal."

"There is no greater blessing than peace."

"Death has taken from me my lord and my father."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"I have made myself a creature of extremes, and I cannot find peace."

"It is more honorable to be raised up than to be born high."

"A man without books is a man without history."

"What is all the glory of the world worth if it brings no satisfaction to the soul?"

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

"Anything that can be done by force can be done better by patience."

"Life is best lived when steps are taken toward the realization of meaningful dreams."

"I would rather live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

"Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than distrust."