Petronius Quotes

#1. The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

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#2. The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.

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#3. A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'

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#4. Women are one and all a set of vultures.

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#5. Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

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#6. Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

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#7. It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

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#8. A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

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#9. I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

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#10. The mind longs for what it has missed.

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#11. Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

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#12. A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

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#13. He has gone over to the majority.

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#14. What power has law where only money rules.

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#15. Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

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#16. Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

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#17. He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.

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#18. While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.

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#19. Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

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#20. Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

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#21. A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

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#22. Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

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#23. One good turn deserves another.

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