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Pietro Aretino Biography

Pietro Aretino (19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics and developed modern literary pornography.

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What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

Beasts, Evil, Men, Woman, Would Be

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

Contentment, Merit, Praise, Suffer, Suffering, Temper

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Ears, Flattery, Make, Milk And Honey, Perfumed, Words

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

Delight, Delights, Denied, Eye, Eyes, Should

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.

Absence, Anger, Flight, Men, Pride, Time

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.

Hours, Sort, Spring, Tree, Wine, Winter

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Friends, Friendship, Greater, Real Friends, True Friend

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.

Bell, Bells, Cymbals, Madness, Poetry

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

King, Kings, Know, Motivational, Responsibility, Rule

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.

Appears, Art, Book, Compared, Father

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

Quota, Railed, Renown

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Birth, Born, Die, Man, Men

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.

Living, Men, Style, Work, Worry

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Adore, Boyfriend, I Love You, Inspirational, Lies, Love

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Annoy, Funny, Neighbors And Friends, Tell, Truth

We are the buffoons of our children.

Buffoons, Children, Our Children, Parent

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Genius, Jugs, Let, Love, Spring, Winter

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

Inspirational, Lies, Life, Motivational, Telling, Truth

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

Ashamed, Create, Nature, Should, Should I

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.

Disgust, Ears, Flattery, Foods, Milk And Honey, Perfumed

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