Pietro Aretino Quotes & Sayings

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12 most famous Pietro Aretino quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

Pietro Aretino Quotes
“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 Quotes
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Pietro Aretino Quotes
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
“Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.”
Pietro Aretino Quotes
“If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.”
Pietro Aretino Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?”
“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.”
“With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.”

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