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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to ...

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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Virtue is health vice is sickness.

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

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing...

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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is a...

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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds u...

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

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Petrarch

Poet

Born: 1304-07-20

Died: 1374-07-19

Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance.More