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Pietro Aretino has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore…
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
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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…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or…
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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
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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…
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
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Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry…
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of…
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The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of…
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Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is…
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If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower,…
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Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes…
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Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.
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She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what…
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As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must…
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Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you…
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Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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