Francesco Petrarca
An Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, one of the earliest humanists.
Quotes by Francesco Petrarca
It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
The greatest wealth is health.
The only true failure is the failure to try.
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
The only constant in life is change.
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Rarely is anything great or beautiful which is not also sublime.
Love is the salt of life.
I find no peace, and all my war is done.
The pleasant bookshelves of the past, which could not speak and yet spoke to me, have ceased to speak, and I have ceased to hear.
Virtue is the health of the soul.
To begin the same way every day is to live in chains.
Books have led me to a knowledge of myself.
What I have done is worthy of great praise, but what I have left undone is worthy of greater.
The mad passion for study has consumed my life.
Laura in the laurel, death in the laurel.