Francesco Petrarch
» Character » “How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.”
» Enemies » “Man has no greater enemy than himself.”
» Enemies » “Five enemies of peace inhabit with us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
» Love » “To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
» Merit » “It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.”
» Suspicion » “Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.”
» Variety » “Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.”
