39 Quotes by Pietro Aretino

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

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

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.