Pietro Aretino Quotes

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

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

“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.”

“Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.”

“History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.”

“Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?”

“All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.”

“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.”

“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other”

“If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?”