| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Petrarch |
| | | Altro diletto che’ mparar, non provo—Learning is my sole delight. | 1 |
| He loves but lightly who his love can tell. | 2 |
| It is more honourable to be raised to a throne than be born to one; fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. | 3 |
| La gola e’l sonno e l’oziose piume / Hanno del mondo ogni vertù sbandita—Lust, sleep, and idleness have banished every virtue out of the world. | 4 |
| Love accomplishes all things. | 5 |
| Man has not a greater enemy than himself. | 6 |
| Quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno—All the pleasure of the world is only a short dream. | 7 |
| Riches take peace from the soul, but rarely, if ever, confer it. | 8 |
| Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. | 9 |
| Sogno d’infermi—A sick man’s dream. | 10 |
| Solo e pensoso—Alone and pensive. | 11 |
| Suspicion is the bane of friendship. | 12 |
| The end of doubt is the beginning of repose. | 13 |
| Virtue alone can procure that independence which is the end of human wishes. | 14 | | |
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