Petrarch

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom."

"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."

"Rarely do friends see each other's faults."

"The night is as useful to the laborer as the day."

"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."

"In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"When love is not madness, it is not love."

"The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others."

"I cannot always see the threads in the tapestry of my own life while I am being woven."

"Fierce men we are when enraged, but children still in reasoning."

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

"How can a man be said to succeed if his children fail?"

"The greatest adversities have always taught me the most."

"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensiveness than ruined by too confident security."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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

"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than born to one."

"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."

"Knowledge without love is like a light without heat."

"Soldiers generally shoot well when they are well fed."

"No one truly owns his thoughts until they are properly clothed in language."

"A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"In the hope of great deeds, we sometimes overlook the good at hand."

"The greatest gifts are often passed over, the grandest pictures hidden behind curtains."

"We see that those who trust in themselves and their own wisdom fall."

"Money is like seawater: the more you drink, the thirstier you become."

"Health is the greatest gift; contentedness the greatest wealth; faithfulness the greatest relation."