To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Man has no greater enemy than himself.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh-- To...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In ...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: ...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate, ...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together
FRANCESCO PETRARCH True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is a...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Books have led some to learning and others to madness
FRANCESCO PETRARCH All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
FRANCESCO PETRARCH A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to ...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH To be able to say how much you love is to love but little
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds u...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is a...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is a...
PETRARCH To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing...
PETRARCH Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If thos...
PETRARCH Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
PETRARCH Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dang...
PETRARCH There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCH A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCH The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PETRARCH Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to ...
PETRARCH Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds u...
PETRARCH How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PETRARCH Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our ...
PETRARCH And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCH Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCH It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit...
PETRARCH There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and ...
FRANCESCO TOTTI The Santiago Bernabeu is an amazing stadium.
FRANCESCO TOTTI I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wan...
FRANCESCO TOTTI Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
FRANCESCO TOTTI The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so ...
FRANCESCO TOTTI The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important ...
FRANCESCO TOTTI The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it ...
FRANCESCO TOTTI Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
FRANCESCO TOTTI Over the years, I've tried to express myself through my feet, which have made everything simpler...
FRANCESCO TOTTI To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, wh...
FRANCESCO TOTTI Roma come before everything else.
FRANCESCO TOTTI I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.
FRANCESCO TOTTI Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
FRANCESCO TOTTI I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's a...
FRANCESCO TOTTI During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Man...
FRANCESCO TOTTI I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of othe...
FRANCESCO TOTTI When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's...
FRANCESCO TOTTI I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
FRANCESCO TOTTI When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: havi...
FRANCESCO TOTTI Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is lov...
FRANCESCO TOTTI I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. ...
FRANCESCO TOTTI I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuanc...
FRANCESCO QUINN There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
FRANCESCO QUINN I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that...
FRANCESCO QUINN I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the ...
FRANCESCO QUINN What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experi...
FRANCESCO QUINN Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes ...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guid...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, a...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form a...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason ...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame b...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, ...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost ...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change th...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors -...
FRANCESCO CARROZZINI I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
FRANCESCO CARROZZINI To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the resu...
FRANCESCO CARROZZINI Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good alway...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion; '...
FRANCESCO BERNI One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good al...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in ra...
FRANCESCO QUINN I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the pri...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
FRANCESCO CARROZZINI Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Never wage war on religion, nor upon seemingly holy institutions, for this thing has too great a for...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
FRANCESCO PETRARCA Aurum, argentum, gemmae, purpurea vestis, marmorea domus, cultus ager, pietae tabulae, phaleratus so...
FRANCESCO PETRARCA Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some...
FRANCESCO PETRARCA Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
FRANCESCO PETRARCA Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
FRANCESCO PETRARCA Undeniably the centre left has won and I think that it was the left part that won, more than the cen...
FRANCESCO D'ONOFRIO The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to...
FRANCESCO COSSIGA Perhaps, my dear, young Mr. Gates, before putting your new products on the market with so much publi...
FRANCESCO COSSIGA We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far,
FRANCESCO TOTTI The way things are, I'm not even training. I can only manage a bit of physiotherapy then off we go w...
FRANCESCO TOTTI I'll be in the team for Wednesday's Italian Cup final. We've yet to decide whether it's on the bench...
FRANCESCO TOTTI I won't leave Roma. I am happy here and I have a contract until the end of 2006.
FRANCESCO TOTTI By who? I don't know -- there are things greater than me but the feeling is that they wanted us out.
FRANCESCO TOTTI Windows XP is indeed friendly and rational, and its minor inconveniences are normal in a new product...
FRANCESCO COSSIGA He was dramatically and desperately sincere in his renunciation of any political or social critique....
FRANCESCO BONAMI Andy Warhol was obsessed with the image of celebrities being visual icons. The position of the gun i...
FRANCESCO BONAMI It's 8a.m. and time to rest
It's 10a.m. and time to relax
It's noon and time for repose FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO On the edge of a laughing teacup
Did Kubla Kat decree
The the corn fritter festooned with ...
FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO We were wolves once / Wild and wary / Then we noticed you had sofas
FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO Best not to ask "What is it?" until you finish rolling in it.
FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO In Indian diversity there is still the memory of very refined expressions which we have lost
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE As far as concerns the army, I don't know which people among us can claim to be more disciplined and...
FRANCESCO SANSOVINO It wasn't a nasty tackle but usually tackles from behind can cause serious injuries.
FRANCESCO TOTTI Growth is welcome but it has to be better managed if airlines and airports want to improve the passe...
FRANCESCO VIOLANTE You do have the kind of long term perspective that a typical family business has,
FRANCESCO TRAPANI And I had in mind more or less what we then did in the following 20 years. But the family was tellin...
FRANCESCO TRAPANI I wanted to make the company much larger than it was,
FRANCESCO TRAPANI Putting music in the watch could be fun and would surely have a market, but I think that people who ...
FRANCESCO TRAPANI They called me a fool when I said this side could challenge for the title. Now they can think again....
FRANCESCO TOTTI It was a scandal. The truth is he (the referee) had his mind set against us - this was a desired eli...
FRANCESCO TOTTI Health comes first, and I don't want to risk health. I strongly want (to play in) the World Cup ... ...
FRANCESCO TOTTI We're going for the title too, there's no reason why we can't fight with Milan, Juve and Inter.
FRANCESCO TOTTI It's certain that the virus has reached Italy.
FRANCESCO STORACE The bird flu virus has arrived in Italy.
FRANCESCO STORACE It is not a matter of if, but when, avian influenza will strike Italy.
FRANCESCO STORACE The thought of rewarding sports champions by de-penalizing the use of drugs at the Turin Olympics is...
FRANCESCO STORACE We have taken this initiative to guarantee our country from the risk of the spread of the H5N1 virus...
FRANCESCO STORACE The CONI appeal is weighing on us. I hope it is withdrawn.
FRANCESCO STORACE Today's was a first provisional meeting.
FRANCESCO STORACE The whole world is worried and we want to convince everyone, starting with the European Union, to co...
FRANCESCO STORACE detailed report about similar episodes in Sicily recently.
FRANCESCO STORACE We can't accept the principle that Italian laws are not valid, because there are athletes from somew...
FRANCESCO STORACE Berlusconi is the head of a system of information that is completely skewed to his advantage and whi...
FRANCESCO RUTELLI How can you go ahead without taking formal action, but just mocking the governor in an international...
FRANCESCO RUTELLI An Italy in the hands of Bossi would be an Italy that wouldn't be accepted in Europe,
FRANCESCO RUTELLI We showed that the centre-left is alive and kicking.
FRANCESCO RUTELLI We, who were against the war, are completely opposed to any negotiation with kidnappers and terroris...
FRANCESCO RUTELLI We can start over again from here. These results show we are a strong political force even after the...
FRANCESCO RUTELLI Berlusconi in America gave one of his most spectacular performances: yesterday he said on television...
FRANCESCO RUTELLI an enemy of the south.
FRANCESCO RUTELLI Lenders are in a hurry to get their pictures back.
FRANCESCO PETRUCCI Things are getting rather tricky. We have conceded a lot of ground. We had better forget about the c...
FRANCESCO GUIDOLIN It's obvious he's not at 100 percent and needs time to get used to the team but he can certainly pla...
FRANCESCO GUIDOLIN On Tuesday, after a long electoral campaign, we will begin to calculate how much the promises made i...
FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI It's a very good choice. The boost he will give to the country's credibility is more than any budget...
FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI The tourist industry has become a lot more robust in recent years.
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI Bird flu today is not a problem for travelers. There is no case of a traveler contracting the virus....
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI What we want is to obtain information in real time, to be capable of circulating this information in...
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI We must ensure that people are not deterred from travelling without good reason.
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI Travel without fear wherever you want to go -- to China, Thailand, Indonesia, Turkey.
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI There is no reason to give in to panic.
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI Although world tourism has been affected by a situation of insecurity and uncertainty, the sector ha...
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI It is not acceptable that our soldiers should put themselves at risk or even sacrifice their lives f...
FRANCESCO COSSIGA This is a total disaster. It couldn't get worse than this.
FRANCESCO COSSIGA That's not the case: until a few minutes ago my computer was still out of action and for a fault in ...
FRANCESCO COSSIGA In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce
FRANCESCO CARACCIOLO We want to become a long-term player leading the transformation of the industry with sufficient scal...
FRANCESCO CAIO We want to become a long-term player leading the transformation of the industry with sufficient scal...
FRANCESCO CAIO Putting them in their context gives an idea of life and death from the first to the sixth centuries.
FRANCESCO BURANELLI We're aware of the problem and we're determined to do something about it.
FRANCESCO BURANELLI They exemplify the commitment of the Roman Pontiffs to promoting evangelization through the language...
FRANCESCO BURANELLI We have nearly 8km of exhibitions but even I can't tell you exactly how many pieces we have because ...
FRANCESCO BURANELLI They were born as private collections and not for public viewing. It is impossible to change structu...
FRANCESCO BURANELLI True fragments of history have re-emerged intact from the oblivion of time and the Earth.
FRANCESCO BURANELLI As you look at these powerful images, you see there is something very dignified about this woman. Wa...
FRANCESCO BONAMI Andy Warhol understood early on that death and fame are the subjects that attract the most people. T...
FRANCESCO BONAMI Warhol was using the media as a tool to do his art. He wasn't manipulating it. He was absolutely fas...
FRANCESCO BONAMI He was extremely talented, but in a different way. His images are very vivid. He used empty space in...
FRANCESCO BONAMI Andy Warhol was a pioneer of looking at society as this machine. Warhol looked, in a good and bad wa...
FRANCESCO BONAMI The works are very difficult to get because most are from private collections and museums. When a pa...
FRANCESCO BONAMI She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.<...
FRANCESCO PETRARCA Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
FRANCESCO PETRARCA I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.
FRANCESCO PETRARCA How do you challenge a man's faith? Take away love, his job, his car and make him go without hope at...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE My heart is bigger than my ego. My love for love is greater than a one night stand. Therefore, I rat...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE A home is where you lay your head down, a persons loving arms is where you find peace and harmony.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Assassinate me with your threatening words you may, intimidate me you cannot. A ballless man can onl...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Foolish are those who seek what they cannot find, but with blindfold they will pretend to reach thei...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE All that I love was in front of my eyes but the reality is so far and away from me.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Keep the ones who hurt you in check, cherish the few your heart placed an asterisk for you to keep f...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Ask yourself this, is insecurity a personal mind disease or was it a scar marked by a deception in o...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Because we're actors in life, we can pretend Love and fake unity, but I'd rather believe that the in...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE A person who has to convince themselves they are worth by lying about how others have treated them, ...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Being in a depressed state of mind is like Siesta Key Beach without sand and sun.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Avoid senseless communications with those who undermine you.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE You may see me smiling, but my hard shell is a greater cover than my broken heart.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE If you don't believe in Love, then all your reasons of life become inconsequential.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE The revelation of love is found in the name of Jesus.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE When you fall asleep and dream of love, it becomes your morning glory as if you spent a night in hea...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE My lost soul is the casualties of a brokenheart.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE You are never wise enough to be immune to what could happen.. Only through good actions you live by ...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE No roads can measure nor distort the willingness and desire to be with their loved one.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Love is the natural global warming in one’s heart, when it’s delivered by loved ones.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE There are days when we all fall in a solitude trance while hearing a sad country song playing in the...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Prop 8. There's a reason why God had created Adam and Eve ~ Not Adam and Steve.. Two screws don't fi...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE There's no doubt. When your heart aches it's missing the most important component to life, Love.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE They say time heals a broken heart. What heals the trust to venture love again?
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE The doctor says you are sick. Live today as if it were your last, but when you find out it wasn't tr...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE There are times in life you will have to force yourself to be unsighted. Keep yourself from searchin...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE