Quotes from Francesco Petrarca

gönlümüzde kayg?lar, kollar?m?zda boÅŸluk, geçici zevkler ve bitmek bilmez dert, k???n güller, yaz ortas?nda buz, belirsiz umut önümüzde ve k?sa süren sevinç, piÅŸmanl?k ve elem, ard?m?zda b?rakt???m?z (aÅŸk?n utkusu iii, 115-119)

Now, what I am, and what I was, I know; I see the seasons in procession go With still increasing speed; while things to come, Unknown, unthought, amid the growing gloom Of long futurity, perplex my soul, While life is posting to its final goal. Mine is the crime, who ought with clearer light To watch the winged years' incessant flight; And not to slumber on in dull delay

El que de otros habla mal, a sí mismo se condena.

Sono posseduto da una passione inesauribile che finora non ho potuto né voluto frenare. Non riesco a saziarmi di libri.

Certamente la solitudine senza lettere è una prigione, ed è uno gravissimo supplizio; ma dàgli le lettere, e li è la patria, li è la libertade, li è il piacere.

Having indeed seen so many things and considered so much, I have finally begun to understand how many are these desires with which the human species burns. Lest you consider me immune to all the sins of men, there is one implacable passion that holds me which so far I have been neither able nor willing to check, for I flatter myself that the desire for noble things is not dishonorable. Do you wish to hear the nature of this disease? I am unable to satisfy my thirst for books.

Altro diletto che imparar non provo.

Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt, " said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee.