"Perugia is my true fatherland because there I……" — Pietro Aretino
"Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood."
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Pietro Aretino
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35 Quotes by Pietro Aretino
Pietro Aretino has 35 quotes on this site.
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth…
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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…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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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…
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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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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The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are…
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Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without…
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Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very…
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More Fatherland Quotes
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
— Emile M. Cioran
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...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood,…
— Adolf Hitler
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You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese,…
— Adolf Hitler
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Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should…
— Harry Browne
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Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!
— Hans Schemm
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What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled…
— Adolf Hitler
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Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last…
— Adolf Hitler
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A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...
— Emile M. Cioran
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
— Democritus
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You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy…
— Erich Ludendorff
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I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our…
— Vladimir Putin
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My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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