"Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at……" — 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 one thing."
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Pietro Aretino
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35 Quotes by Pietro Aretino
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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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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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