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• Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

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  Spring, Winter, Jugs

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

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  Home, Men, Deceit

  Pietro Aretino (2003). “The School of Whoredom”, Hesperus Press

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• He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!

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  Pain, Taverns, Care

  Quoted by Longfellow in Hyperion, Book III, Chapter II. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 394-395, 1922.

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• Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

  Pietro Aretino

  Quota, Renown

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• What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

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  Men, Evil, Would Be

  "Pietro Aretino, the scourge of princes" by Edward Hutton, (p. 65), 1922.

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• There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

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  Milk And Honey, Ears, Flattery

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

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  Sex, Lunch, Desire

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

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  Grew, Fatherland, Manhood

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• Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

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  Eye, Delight, Should

  "Dirty old masters: should the EU ban pornographic paintings?" by Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2013.

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• And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

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  Spring, Wine, Winter

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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