"Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole……" — Pietro Aretino
"Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness."
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35 Quotes by Pietro Aretino
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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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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…
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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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