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.”
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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 Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
PetroniusPetronius The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
PetroniusPetronius He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
PetroniusPetronius It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
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Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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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 I figure if I take my children’s work seriously, maybe they will too. And it reinforces the idea that art is not something alien and esoteric. Anyone can make art.
Aerin LauderAerin Lauder