Original text (Italian)
When a man dies, he has too many other worries to allow any thinking about death.
It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.
Disease is a conviction, and I was born with that conviction.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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