Quotes About Petronius

#1. Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.

Bee Wilson

#2. Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and

Shashi Tharoor

#3. Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. from Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon, 'For once I saw with my own eyes the Cumaean Sibyl hanging in a jar. When the boys asked her, "Sibyl, what do you want?" she said, "I want to die." '" Long

Lauren Groff

#5. So, Maximus the Fellatio Trainer - how does your prick feel about scratchy barbarian beards?"

Lucius Petronius

J.P. Kenwood

#6. In every human undertaking there is something which is not in our power and does not come within our calculations; the wish to win this for oneself is the origin of the gods. "Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor" is an old and true saying of Petronius.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible.

J.M. Robertson

#8. He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

#9. You've been robbed. Those times, where did they go? Once so alive but now hidden in a mass grave. And that's where the future ones are headed. Remember that. All the days to come will vanish thus. What value or meaning can they contain? We are hoarders of dust.

Petronius Jablonski

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

#16. Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

#19. One good turn deserves another.

Petronius

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

Petronius

#21. Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

#27. 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.

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius

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

Petronius