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Famous Pietro Aretino Quotes
Source: The School of Whoredom
“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
“The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.”
Source: The works
“What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!”
