39 Quotes by Pietro Aretino

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

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.

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!

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

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.

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

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.

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

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