Petronius Quotes

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

What power has law where only money rules?

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

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

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

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

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.

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

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

The world wants to be deceived.

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

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

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

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

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

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

One good turn deserves another.

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

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

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

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

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