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Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

Pietro Aretino

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Pietro Aretino
Age: 64 †
Born: 1492
Born: April 19
Died: 1556
Died: October 21
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Journalist
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Piero Aretino
Pietro del Tura
Arétin
Aretin
Nothing
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Soundless
Madness
Cymbals
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Lighters
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Whim
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Bell
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
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There is no food more satiating than milk and honey and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
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The art of war is like the art of the courtesan indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
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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.
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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.
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Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
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Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.
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The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
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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.
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Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
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What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
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A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
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Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
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What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.
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We are the buffoons of our children.
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