Quotes by Petrarch
4 quotes by Petrarch (died 1374), taken from Letter to Posterity. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Letter to Posterity
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“While I am very prone to take offence, I am equally quick to forget injuries, and have a memory tenacious of benefits.”
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“I have always been most desirous of honourable friendships, and have faithfully cherished them.”
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“I possessed a well-balanced rather than a keen intellect, one prone to all kinds of good and wholesome study, but especially inclined to moral philosophy and the art of poetry.”
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“Such was my innate longing for liberty, that I studiously avoided those whose very name seemed incompatible with the freedom that I loved.”