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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/a-high-heart-ought-to-bear-calamities-and-not-flee-them-since-in/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

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## More by Pietro Aretino

> [The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/the-best-thing-for-a-man-to-do-is-to-be-born-and-being-born-to-die-at/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/nature-without-exercise-is-a-seed-shut-up-in-a-pod-and-art-without/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/i-love-you-and-because-i-love-you-i-would-sooner-have-you-hate-me-for/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/love-doesn-t-hide-it-stays-and-fights-it-goes-the-distance-that-s-why/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree… Four dry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/and-there-is-quite-a-different-sort-of-conversation-around-a-fire/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/they-merit-more-praise-who-know-how-to-suffer-misery-than-those-who/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/perugia-is-my-true-fatherland-because-there-i-grew-to-manhood/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [“let us love winter, for it is the spring of genuis.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/let-us-love-winter-for-it-is-the-spring-of-genuis/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/learning-is-the-property-of-those-who-fear-to-do-disagreeable-things/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/flattery-and-deceit-are-the-darlings-of-great-men-and-so-with-these/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/a-man-who-permits-his-honor-to-be-taken-permits-his-life-to-be-taken/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/they-merit-more-praise-who-know-how-to-suffer-misery-than-those-who-2/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/desire-is-poison-at-lunch-and-wormwood-at-dinner-your-bed-is-a-stone/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [We are the buffoons of our children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/we-are-the-buffoons-of-our-children/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

> [I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pietro-aretino/i-am-a-free-man-i-do-not-need-to-copy-petrarca-or-boccaccio-my-own/)

[Pietro Aretino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pietro-aretino/)

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