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He who can say how he burns is in but a little fire.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
A thing seems a great marvel but then is despised.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Oh how easy it is to deceive one who is confident!
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Nor do I care about the mob or about Fortune.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Cities are hateful to me, friendly the woods.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Because life is short and my wit is afraid of the high undertaking, in neither do I have much confidence.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
My Pandolfo, those works are frail in the long run, but our study is the one that makes men immortal through fame.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
I am she who gave you so much war and completed my day before evening.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
There is no heart so hard that by weeping, praying, loving, it may not at some time be moved, nor will so cold that it cannot be warmed.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
I shall be what I have been, shall live as I have lived.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Hannibal was victorious, but he did not know later how to make good use of his victorious fortune.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Full of a yearning thought that makes me stray away from all others.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Your high beauty, which has no equal in the world, is painful to you except insofar as it seems to adorn and set off your lovely treasure of chastity.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
And so on earth
our destiny is with us from our birth.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
The time to labor is while it is day.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
Life flees and does not stop an hour.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
One falls in love through fame.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
To obey Nature in all is best.
Il Canzoniere (1351)
This mortal life is like a meadow where the serpent lies among the flowers and grass, and if anything we see there pleases our eyes, the result is to enlime our souls more deeply.
Il Canzoniere (1351)