Torquato Tasso

“This is the last of my days, I hope, and the last of my pains.”

“Love, who is a tyrant, commands of us to suffer.”

“Haste is from the devil.”

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.”

“Any time is a good time to beget an heir.”

“The world is a theatre, the book of fate is the play, and we are the actors.”

“Fame, the sovereign of all things, is not so much the fruit of studies as of dangers.”

“For love is a celestial harmony of likely hearts, composed of stars' consent.”

“So great is the power of envy, that it can make the horse of the sun stand still.”

“The day of death is better than the day of birth.”

“He who is the cause of a war is also the author of all the evils that follow from it.”

“For his looks were not the glances of a lover, but the lightning of a warrior.”