Petrarch quotes - page 2

Resembles herself and no other. (Petrarch)
I am she who gave you so much war and completed my day before evening. View quote
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Hidden beauty is sweetest. View quote
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If it is not love, what then is it that I feel? But if it is love, before God, what kind of thing is it? If it is good, whence comes this bitter mortal effect? If it is evil, why is each torment so sweet? View quote
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To obey Nature in all is best. View quote
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For no human defense avails against Heaven. View quote
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I am speaking to tell the truth, not from hatred or scorn of anyone. View quote
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Cities are hateful to me, friendly the woods. View quote
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There is no heart so hard that by weeping, praying, loving, it may not at some time be moved, nor will so cold that it cannot be warmed. View quote
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct. View quote
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself. (Petrarch)
I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me. View quote
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Ché bel fin fa chi ben amando more. View quote
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The waters speak of love and the breeze and the branches and the little birds and the fish and the flowers and the grass, all together begging me always to love. But you, born in a happy hour, who call me from Heaven: by the memory of your untimely death you beg me to scorn the world and its sweet hooks. View quote
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Song, if you find a man at peace with love, say: 'Die while you're happy, since early death is no grief, but a refuge: and he who can die well, should not delay. View quote
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The proverb "Love him who loves you" is an ancient fact. View quote
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You who hear in scattered rhymes the sound of those sighs with which I nourished my heart during my first youthful error, when I was in part another man from what I am now. View quote
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Your high beauty, which has no equal in the world, is painful to you except insofar as it seems to adorn and set off your lovely treasure of chastity. View quote
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There is nothing in the world that cannot be done by verses. View quote
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Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war; and I fear and hope, and burn and am of ice. View quote
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With Death at my side I seek new counsel for my life, and I see the better but I lay hold on the worse. (Petrarch)
Blessed in sleep and satisfied to languish, to embrace shadows, and to pursue the summer breeze, I swim through a sea that has no floor or shore, I plow the waves and found my house on sand and write on the wind. View quote
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The blond tresses loosened on her neck. View quote
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Nor do I care about the mob or about Fortune. View quote
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Hannibal was victorious, but he did not know later how to make good use of his victorious fortune. View quote
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Petrarch

Occupation: Italian Scholar
Born: July 11, 1304
Died: July 10, 1374
Quotes count: 91
Wikipedia: Petrarch

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