What did Petrarch mean by: Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe. - Petrarch Poet · Italy Copy
+ For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Petrarch, Body, Desire, Stars, 0 - Petrarch Poet · Italy
+ For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Petrarch, Comfort, Death, 0 - Petrarch Poet · Italy
+ The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Petrarch, Individuality, Love, Youth, 0 - Petrarch Poet · Italy
+ How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Petrarch, Character, Ignorance, Rocks, 0 - Petrarch Poet · Italy
+ While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Petrarch, Body, Hands, 0 - Petrarch Poet · Italy
+ Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Petrarch, Dream, Sleep, 0 - Petrarch Poet · Italy
+ Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Petrarch, Bitterness, Sweet, 0 - Petrarch Poet · Italy
+ I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Petrarch, Angel, Heaven, Track, 0 - Petrarch Poet · Italy
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
