"We are the buffoons of our children." — Pietro Aretino
"We are the buffoons of our children."
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Pietro Aretino
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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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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
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Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted;…
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through…
— Louise Bourgeois
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If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and…
— William Lane Craig
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation…
— Oswald Mosley
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental…
— Frank Zappa
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn…
— Alan Lightman
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Betcha I wet cha like hurricanes and typhoons, got buffoons eating my pussy while I watch cartoons.
— Lil Kim
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I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The…
— Paul Westerberg
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You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in…
— Rob Lowe
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