Pietro Aretino - The works of Aretino

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

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Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

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A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

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The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

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Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

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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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There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

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Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

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

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