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Petrarch on Valentine's Day

1304–1374 Italy

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

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

De remediis utriusque fortunae (1354)

The proverb "Love him who loves you" is an ancient fact.

Il Canzoniere (1351)

For he makes a good end who dies loving well.

Il Canzoniere (1351)

Love governs his empire without a sword.

Il Canzoniere (1351)

But still I cannot seek paths so harsh or so savage that Love does not always come along discoursing with me and I with him.

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)

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)

One falls in love through fame.

Il Canzoniere (1351)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Petrarch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.