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title: "1 Madness Love Quotes By Petrarch"
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> [True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/true-we-love-life-not-because-we-are-used-to-living-but-because-we/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

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## More by Petrarch

> [Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/five-enemies-of-peace-inhabit-with-us-avarice-ambition-envy-anger-and/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/i-would-have-preferred-to-have-been-born-in-any-other-time-than-our/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/the-time-will-come-when-every-change-shall-cease-this-quick-revolving/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/wanting-is-not-enough-long-and-you-attain-it/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/the-aged-love-what-is-practical-while-impetuous-youth-longs-only-for/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [Oh, may she deign to stand atmy bedside When I come to die; and may she call to me And draw me to her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/oh-may-she-deign-to-stand-atmy-bedside-when-i-come-to-die-and-may-she/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/how-difficult-it-is-to-save-the-bark-of-reputation-from-the-rocks-of/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/do-you-suppose-there-is-any-living-man-so-unreasonable-that-if-he/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/sameness-is-the-mother-of-disgust-variety-the-cure/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [He loves but lightly who his love can tell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/he-loves-but-lightly-who-his-love-can-tell/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/rarely-do-great-beauty-and-great-virtue-dwell-together/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [It is better to will the good than to know the truth,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/it-is-better-to-will-the-good-than-to-know-the-truth/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/for-death-betimes-is-comfort-not-dismay-and-who-can-rightly-die-needs/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [“I feed my heart with sighs, that's all it asks, I live on tears, I think I'm born to weep; I don't complain of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/i-feed-my-heart-with-sighs-that-s-all-it-asks-i-live-on-tears-i-think/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

> [Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/often-have-i-wondered-with-much-curiosity-as-to-our-coming-into-this/)

[Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/)

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