Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
PETRONIUSOutward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.
More Petronius Quotes
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Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
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Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
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Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
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He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
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He has gone over to the majority.
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Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
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A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
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Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
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The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
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Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
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The world wants to be deceived.
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The mind longs for what it has missed.
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A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
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One good turn deserves another.
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