The mind longs for what it has missed.
PETRONIUSThe mind longs for what it has missed.
PETRONIUSThe favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
PETRONIUSI believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
PETRONIUSBeauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
PETRONIUSThe world wants to be deceived.
PETRONIUSOne good turn deserves another.
PETRONIUSCan’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
PETRONIUSHe has gone over to the majority.
PETRONIUSThe world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
PETRONIUSWomen are one and all a set of vultures.
PETRONIUSHeaven is equally distant everywhere.
PETRONIUSIt is fear that first brought gods into the world.
PETRONIUSHe that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
PETRONIUSWhat power has law where only money rules?
PETRONIUSA physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
PETRONIUSNothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
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