The works
A source page for quotes linked to Pietro Aretino.
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
“If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.”
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
“Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.”
“Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?”
“A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.”
“Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
“Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.”
“The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.”
“Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.”
“Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.”
“We are the buffoons of our children.”
“Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.”
“What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!”