Petronius on alien
Petronius24 quotes“Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.”
Filed under
More from Petronius
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
PetroniusPetronius A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
PetroniusPetronius Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
PetroniusPetronius While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
PetroniusPetronius The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
PetroniusPetronius 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.
PetroniusPetronius The world wants to be deceived.
PetroniusPetronius The mind longs for what it has missed.
PetroniusPetronius Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
PetroniusPetronius A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
PetroniusPetronius A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
PetroniusPetronius He has gone over to the majority.
PetroniusPetronius Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
PetroniusPetronius Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
PetroniusPetronius Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
PetroniusPetronius What power has law where only money rules?
PetroniusPetronius
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on alien
I’m going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year – I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.
Shaquille O'NealShaquille O'Neal I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
Pat ConroyPat Conroy On our Southern border, Joe Biden has allowed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal aliens into our country.
Marjorie Taylor GreeneMarjorie Taylor Greene Illegal aliens knew President Joe Biden would open our southern border wide open.
Marjorie Taylor GreeneMarjorie Taylor Greene The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei