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Francesco Petrarca quotes: To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: walk forwards in the radiance of the past

walk forwards in the radiance of the past

Francesco Petrarca quotes: Blessed be the eyes that saw her while she lived!" 310

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue...

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Francesco Petrarca quotes: A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: Loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.

Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: The world's delight is a brief dream.

The world's delight is a brief dream.

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

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.

I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.

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

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

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

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

Francesco Petrarca quotes: Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Francesco Petrarca quotes: Learning is my sole delight.

Learning is my sole delight.