Petrarch

"Justice is the insurance we have on our lives."

"Patience is a virtue."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Fear is the prison of the heart."

"Power without wisdom is tyranny."

"Death is but crossing the world as friends do the seas."

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

"Living well is the best revenge."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

"Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working."

"Relationships are the most important aspect of life."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."

"The only constant in life is change."

"Humility is the foundation of all virtue."

"Tomorrow we shall be our true selves."

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"Every moment dies a man. Every moment one is born."

"The love of nature is the first step toward wisdom."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."