I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
PETRONIUSCan’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
More Petronius Quotes
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A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
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Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
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A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
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What power has law where only money rules?
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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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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 mind longs for what it has missed.
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Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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He has gone over to the majority.
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The world wants to be deceived.
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While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
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The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
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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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Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
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