Petrarch

"The living owe it to themselves to do the best things possible when they are in the world."

"Our minds are like our stomachs; not all that enters nourishes."

"Adversity is only bitter to those who are unprepared."

"The fear of God makes us free from the fear of men."

"Nothing is so certain as that the greater the power, the more dangerous its abuse."

"Where Christ has placed his seal, I am not ashamed."

"The present time is theirs; the future for which I really labored is mine."

"Virtue is sufficient of itself for happiness."

"Imagination is the path to all discovery."

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"No man should be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."

"How unpleasant it is to lose one's reputation."

"The days and nights are what we make them."

"Nor is it the least charm of a letter that it can be dipped again and again in the magic inkwell."

"A man may be twice-born without shame, but thrice-born speaks of folly."

"Music gives a soul to the universe."

"Gratitude is not only the memory of the heart."

"We do not die wholly at our deaths."

"The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood."

"Our senses are often our deceivers."

"You must travel widely to earn the respect of your own town."

"Existence itself is the most astonishing thing imaginable."

"What a wretched and despicable thing is fear."

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

"There is a certain relief in change, even if it be from bad to worse."

"Slow rises worth by poverty oppressed."

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to appear so."

"In the study of nature one should not work on the principle of nervous irritation."