While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
PETRONIUSWisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
More Petronius Quotes
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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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Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
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Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
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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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The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
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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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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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The mind longs for what it has missed.
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A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
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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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The world wants to be deceived.
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Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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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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