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Men Quotes by 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 something…
- 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,…
- 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…
- A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
- The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
- What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
- 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,…
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