I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
PETRONIUSIt is fear that first brought gods into the world.
More Petronius Quotes
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Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
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He has gone over to the majority.
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A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
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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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Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.
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One good turn deserves another.
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What power has law where only money rules?
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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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Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
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The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
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Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
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Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
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Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
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A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
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The world wants to be deceived.
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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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The mind longs for what it has missed.
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Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
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While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
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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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