Pietro Aretino Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

16 Famous Quotes by Pietro Aretino
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“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.”
Truth Quotes
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Confidence 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.”
Lies 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.”
Relationships 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.”
Romance Quotes
“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
Self-control Quotes
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Self awareness Quotes
“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!”
Inns Quotes
Source: quoted by Longfellow in "Hyperion", bk. III, ch. II
“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.”
Contentment Quotes
“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.”
Merit Quotes
“I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.”
Friends / friendship Quotes
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.”
Miscellaneous Quotes