True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. Petrarch More Quotes by Petrarch More Quotes From Petrarch To be able to say how much love, is love but little. Petrarch able littles love What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances Petrarch demise names looks Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed! Petrarch pain loss beautiful There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come. Petrarch satisfaction sometimes years There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Petrarch lighters pens burden It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. Petrarch thrones merit born I have taken pride in others, never in myself. Petrarch pride taken He loves but lightly who his love can tell. Petrarch his-love love A good death does honour to a whole life. Petrarch memorial doe death How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! Petrarch earth fortune Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment. Petrarch light believe reality Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Petrarch fate pain time 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 blessing desire men In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did. Petrarch flames desire lying The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts. Petrarch effort greater How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. Petrarch rocks ignorance character And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Petrarch grief light life I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears. Petrarch praying desire writing The time will come when every change shall cease, Petrarch rest-in-peace summer time Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal! Petrarch delight too-much eye
