Petrarch

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

"Avoid sloth, that sickness of the soul."

"I have become a stranger in a foreign land, yet I have found myself."

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."

"The act of loving is an action of the soul, not the body."

"We cannot live only for ourselves; a thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."

"It is well to avenge oneself, but not to boast of it."

"Fortune makes a fool of him whom she makes her darling."

"Posterity will know me better than my own time has done."

"My eyes are made dim with tears."

"In my youth I was consumed by the flames of passion."

"I have lived long enough; let me now enjoy peace."

"Knowledge without love is not knowledge but mere facts."

"The desire to know does not need to be learned; it is native to the mind."

"True nobility is not by birth but by character."

"Let the foundation of knowledge be the love of truth."

"A grateful heart is a bridge to paradise."

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"In love we find the meaning of life."

"Courage is the virtue that overcomes all obstacles."

"Beware of idleness, that gateway to vice."

"The mind is its own place; it can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven."

"Art is the highest expression of human achievement."

"A single moment of perfect understanding can change a lifetime."

"Nature teaches what reason cannot."

"I fear the world will soon read that I am mad."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Beauty and truth are forever intertwined."

"To forgive is to be forgiven."

"The journey is more important than the destination."