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“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“Books have led some to learning and others to madness.”
― Petrarch

“She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face.”
― Petrarch

“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.”
― Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere: Selected Poems

“Blessed be the eyes that saw her while she lived!” 310”
― Francesco Petrarca, The Poetry of Petrarch

“I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us... and are bound to us by lively and witty intimacy, and do not just insinuate themselves alone on their readers but present the names of others, and each one creates a longing for another.”
― Francesco Petrarca, Selected Letters, Volume 1

“Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.”
― Francesco Petrarca, Rime Di Petrarca: Verses by Petrarca