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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Pietro Aretino
Funny, Truth, Neighbors And Friends

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

Pietro Aretino
Anger, Mind, Desire
Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

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

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

Pietro Aretino
Quota, Renown

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!

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

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

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

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.

Pietro Aretino
Milk And Honey, Ears, Flattery
Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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.

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

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

Pietro Aretino
Grew, Fatherland, Manhood

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

Pietro Aretino
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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.

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

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