quotes by petrarch

Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride; if these 

were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the crue.