Quotes of Pietro Aretino - somelinesforyou

“ I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree…. Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! — holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round! ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! — holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round! ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”

- Pietro Aretino
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