Quotes by Pietro Aretino

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.

Adversity

Art

Mind

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

Honor

Men

Taken

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

Age

Mind

Sorry

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.

Spring

Wine

Winter

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

Anger

Desire

Mind

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

Anger

Men

Pride

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.

Desire

Lunch

Sex

Even when I’m railed at, I get my quota of renown.

Quota

Renown

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you’ll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Deceit

Home

Men

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.

Art

Exercise

Practice

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Age

Anger

Art

Ashamed

Bells

Birth

Book

Born

Boyfriend

Care

Children

Contentment

Cymbals

Deceit

Delight

Desire

Disagreeable

Distance

Ears

Evil

Exercise

Eye

Father

Fatherland

Flattery

Friendship

Funny

Glasses

Grew

Hats

Heart

Home

Honor

I Love You

Inspirational

Jugs

Kings

Life

Lunch

Madness

Manhood

Men

Merit

Might

Milk And Honey

Mind

Motivational

Nature

Neighbors And Friends

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Quotes by Pietro Aretino

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.

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

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

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.

Even when I’m railed at, I get my quota of renown.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you’ll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

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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