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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

walk forwards in the radiance of the past

Blessed be the eyes that saw her while she lived!" 310

To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue...

How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

I have to thank you ... because you have so often helped me forget the evils of today.

Everything else, every thought, goes fore and forever fades away into the recesses of time, and therein what remains is my soul's love for you.

Never would I trade for some new shape
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.

Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)

[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137
(from Montaigne, On sadness)

The world's delight is a brief dream.

No one is a man of learning unless he is also a heretic and a madman, and above all , aggressively perverse.

I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.

I am possessed by one insatiable passion , which I cannot restrain nor would I if I could ... I cannot get enough books .

Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Learning is my sole delight.