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.
PETRARCHI 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.
PETRARCHI rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
PETRARCHOften on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
PETRARCHOften have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
PETRARCHAn equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
PETRARCHLife in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
PETRARCHWhere you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
PETRARCHIt may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
PETRARCHWhile life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
PETRARCHDeath had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCHHow quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHWho naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCH