Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.
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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
—Pietro Aretino
Topics: Truth
We are the buffoons of our children.
—Pietro Aretino
Topics: Children
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
—Pietro Aretino
Topics: Self-Control, Discipline, Integrity
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.
—Pietro Aretino
Topics: Perseverance, Endurance, Resolve
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.
—Pietro Aretino
Topics: Friends and Friendship, Friendship
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a 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.
—Pietro Aretino
Topics: Anger
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.
—Pietro Aretino
Topics: Adversity, Endurance, Perseverance, Resolve, Difficulties
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.
—Pietro Aretino
Topics: Romance, Lies, Love, Truth
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
—Pietro Aretino
Topics: Anger
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