Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home. Pietro Aretino More Quotes by Pietro Aretino More Quotes From Pietro Aretino Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch. Pietro Aretino milk-and-honeyflatteryears Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown. Pietro Aretino renownquota Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. Pietro Aretino manhoodfatherlandgrew 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 tavernspaincare Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it. Pietro Aretino angerminddesire 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. Pietro Aretino lunchdesiresex Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things. Pietro Aretino propertydisagreeablescholarship 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. Pietro Aretino deceithomemen Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap. Pietro Aretino glasseslifereality A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken. Pietro Aretino takenhonormen Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino motivationalinspirationallife Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing. Pietro Aretino natureexerciseart The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once. Pietro Aretino birthbornmen Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most? Pietro Aretino delighteyeshould 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 winewinterspring Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art. Pietro Aretino
