Pietro Aretino Quotes

• Soy, en efecto, un rey, porque sé gobernarme a mí mismo.

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  Motivational, Kings, Responsibility

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• Te quiero, y porque te quiero, prefiero que me odies por decirte la verdad a que me adores por decirte mentiras.

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  Inspirational, I Love You, Boyfriend

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• 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.

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  Strong, Distance, Home

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

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  Taken, Men, Honor

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• Yo guardo a mis amigos como los avaros guardan su tesoro, porque, de todas las cosas que nos concede la sabiduría, ninguna es mayor ni mejor que la amistad.

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  Amistad, Amigo de verdad, Amigos de verdad

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• 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.

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  Anger, Pride, Men

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• Un corazón elevado debe soportar las calamidades y no huir de ellas, ya que al soportarlas aparece la grandeza de la mente y al huir de ellas la cobardía del corazón.

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  Art, Adversity, Mind

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

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  Should, Ashamed, Should I

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• Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

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  Art, Father, Book

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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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  Art, War, Might

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• Palabras perfumadas y galantes hacen eructar nuestros oídos.

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  Milk And Honey, Ears, Flattery

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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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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  Art, Exercise, Practice

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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

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  Scholarship, Property, Disagreeable

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

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  Life, Reality, Glasses

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• The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

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  Men, Birth, Born

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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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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  Bells, Cymbals, Madness

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

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  Men, Worry, Style

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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 son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

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  Kings, Heart, Son

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• Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

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  Sorry, Mind, Age

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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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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  Suffering, Contentment, Merit

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• What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.

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  Men, Evil, Hats

  "Pietro Aretino, the scourge of princes" by Edward Hutton, (p. 65), 1922.

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• We are the buffoons of our children.

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  Children, Parent, Our Children

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• Amemos el invierno, pues es la primavera del genio.

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  Spring, Winter, Jugs

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

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  Art, Nature, Exercise

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Si quieres molestar a tus vecinos, di la verdad sobre ellos.

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  Funny, Truth, Neighbors And Friends

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