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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes. — Francesco Carrozzini

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience. — Francesco Guicciardini

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living. — Francesco Clemente

Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi. — Jerry Izenberg

Now we were united, strong, friends, and something more. — Francesco D'Adamo

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

walk forwards in the radiance of the past — Francesco Petrarca

My name actually is Francesco Castaluccio. — Frankie Valli

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

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. — Francesco Guicciardini

Winning one league title at Roma to me is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid. — Francesco Totti

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters. — Francesco Albani

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

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

Sometimes when I lie on your warm chest
And hear your every happy sigh
I gaze into your two kind eyes
And wonder, 'Who is that? — Francesco Marciuliano

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

Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's fan! — Francesco Totti

Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness. — Francesco Redi

I'm sorry, I don't speak English. — Francesco Totti

I always saw photography as a way to get to film. — Francesco Carrozzini

There is only one player who is doing things that I could never do - and that is Messi. — Francesco Totti

We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far — Francesco Totti

Be more guided by hope than fear. — Francesco Guicciardini

In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York. — Francesco Clemente

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

They say there are
Twenty-four hours in a day
But I'm only up for three of them
And two I consider overtime — Francesco Marciuliano

To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in. — Francesco Clemente

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. — Francesco Guicciardini

It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear. — Francesco Guicciardini

There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not. — Francesco Quinn

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose. — Francesco Guicciardini

Best not to ask "What is it?" until you finish rolling in it. — Francesco Marciuliano

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

To the aircraft I aim, not the man. — Francesco Baracca

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources. — Francesco Guicciardini

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

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous. — Francesco Clemente

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

We were wolves once / Wild and wary / Then we noticed you had sofas — Francesco Marciuliano

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

Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws. — Francesco Clemente

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits. — Francesco Guicciardini

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

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

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

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. — Francesco Guicciardini

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. — Francesco Petrarca

Learning is my sole delight. — Francesco Petrarca

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance
to make them. — Francesco Guicciardini

Steven Gerrard would be the captain of my World XI dream team. — Francesco Totti

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. — Francesco Guicciardini

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable. — Francesco Guicciardini

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

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. — Francesco Guicciardini

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. — Francesco Guicciardini

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone. — Francesco Cossiga

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

As far as concerns the army, I don't know which people among us can claim to be more disciplined and closer to the order of the Romans than the Turks. — Francesco Sansovino

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. — Francesco Guicciardini

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

In a world gone mad, we will not spank the monkey, but the monkey will spank us — Francesco Totti

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. — Francesco Guicciardini

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful. — Francesco Clemente

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

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente

One day instead the old woman said kind words to her and gave her an awning on a stick to keep rain off (there has been much rain in purgatorium) — Ali Smith

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. — Francesco Clemente

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received. — Francesco Guicciardini

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality. — Francesco Clemente

Friends, or frenemies? — Francesco Sedita

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

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. — Francesco Guicciardini

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