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Top 25 Pietro Aretino Quotes (2025 Update)

Pietro Aretino Quote: “I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”

1. “I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?”

2. “Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Love doesn’t hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that’s why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.”

3. “Love doesn’t hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that’s why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.”

4. “Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Even when I’m railed at, I get my quota of renown.”

5. “Even when I’m railed at, I get my quota of renown.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

6. “Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.”

7. “The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.”

8. “Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.”

9. “Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.”

10. “A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.”

11. “The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?”

12. “Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”

13. “A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.”

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

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “The world has many kings but only one Michelangelo.”

15. “The world has many kings but only one Michelangelo.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.”

16. “Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “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.”

17. “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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Pietro Aretino Quote: “What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.”

18. “What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.”

19. “Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “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.”

20. “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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Pietro Aretino Quote: “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!”

21. “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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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.”

22. “Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.”

23. “They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.”

24. “Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!”

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

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “We are the buffoons of our children.”

26. “We are the buffoons of our children.”

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Pietro Aretino Quote: “Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.”

27. “Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.”

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