Quotes by Petronius Arbiter

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While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
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A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
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He has gone over to the majority.
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Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
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Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
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He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
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A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters ‘Beware of the dog.’
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Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
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Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
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