Petrarch

• “Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.” -Petrarch

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  –Petrarch

  peace

• “Books have led some to learning and others to madness.” -Petrarch

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  –Petrarch

  learning

• “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

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  health

• “Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.” -Petrarch

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  friendship

• “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.” -Petrarch

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  beauty

• “Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.” -Petrarch

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  –Petrarch

  anger

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