Quote #16
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
More from Petrarch
- Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
- Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
- 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 is the cancer of friendship.
- How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
- The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
- How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
- To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influence…