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A source page for quotes linked to Pietro Aretino.
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Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
Source: The works
Source: The works
“If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.”
Source: The School of Whoredom
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
Source: The works
“Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.”
Source: The works
Source: The works
“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.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
“Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
Source: The works
“Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.”
Source: The works
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
“The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.”
Source: The works
“Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
“Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.”
Source: The works
“We are the buffoons of our children.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
Source: The works
“Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
“What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!”