Petrarch – 5 Quotes

5 Quotes by Petrarch

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.

– Petrarch

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

– Petrarch

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

– Petrarch

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

– Petrarch

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

– Petrarch