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With a goose-quill and a few ...

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 45 quotes

Telling you the truth than ad...

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

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What evil is there in seeing ...

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.

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There is no food more satiati...

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

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And there is quite a differen...

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.

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The best thing for a man to d...

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

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Why should I be ashamed to de...

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

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Poetry is a whim of Nature in...

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

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Flee laziness which while it ...

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.

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He who has not been at a tave...

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!

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A man who permits his honor t...

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

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Nothing, it appears to me, is...

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

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If you want to annoy your nei...

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

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Flattery and deceit are the d...

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.

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A high heart ought to bear ca...

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

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I am a free man. I do not nee...

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.

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I keep my friends as misers d...

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

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I love you, and because I lov...

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

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They merit more praise who kn...

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

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Perfumed and gallant words mak...

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Pietro Aretino 45 quotes

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