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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you’ll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse. (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create? (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Even when I’m railed at, I get my quota of renown (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round! (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Love doesn’t hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that’s why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home. (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most? (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
We are the buffoons of our children (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you’ll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a time takes flight and, in her absence, wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Love doesn’t hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that’s why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing (Pietro Aretino Quotes)
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