Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
PETRONIUSHeaven is equally distant everywhere.
PETRONIUSHe has gone over to the majority.
PETRONIUSA doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
PETRONIUSLeave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
PETRONIUSOne good turn deserves another.
PETRONIUSA physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
PETRONIUSThe mind longs for what it has missed.
PETRONIUSOutward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.
PETRONIUSThe favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
PETRONIUSNothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
PETRONIUSJust as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
PETRONIUSWhat power has law where only money rules?
PETRONIUSI believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
PETRONIUSWhile fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
PETRONIUSIt is fear that first brought gods into the world.
PETRONIUSBeauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
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