Quotes by Petronius Arbiter

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