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Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war; and I fear and hope, and burn and am of ice.

— Petrarch Il Canzoniere (1351)

Pace non trovo, et non ò da far guerra;
e temo, et spero; et ardo, et son un ghiaccio.

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