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Petrarch on emotion

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

Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta), sonnet 134, lines 1-2

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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
Letter to Boccaccio (28 April 1373), in Robinson and Rolfe, Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898)
- Work
To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer.
Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (26 April 1336), “The Ascent of Mount Ventoux”, tr. James Harvey Robinson (1898)
- Nature

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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Why Socialism? (1949)
Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.
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