Quote #19
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
More from Petrarch
- Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
- To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influence…
- Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
- 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.
- Man has no greater enemy than himself.
- Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
- Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
- It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.