Petronius famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The mind longs for what it has missed.
-- Petronius

#Mind
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.
-- Petronius

#Time #Team #Would Be
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
-- Petronius

#Doctors #Physicians #Spirit
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
-- Petronius

#Political
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
-- Petronius

#People #Morality #Opinion
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
-- Petronius

#Home #Youth #Aliens
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
-- Petronius

#Women #Vulture
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
-- Petronius

#Form #Combination
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.
-- Petronius

#Sweet #Laughter #Use
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
-- Petronius

#Men #Rose #Thorns
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
-- Petronius

#Believe #School #Men
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
-- Petronius

#Stupid #Dumb
What power has law where only money rules?
-- Petronius

#Law
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
-- Petronius

#Political #World #Politics
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
-- Petronius

#God #World #Firsts
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
-- Petronius

#Hope #Dumb #Caught
While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.
-- Petronius

#Lasts #Faces #Fortune
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
-- Petronius

#Heaven
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
-- Petronius

#Believe #Men #Businessman
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'
-- Petronius

#Dog #Wall #Letters
One good turn deserves another.
-- Petronius

#Fables #Turns #Deserve
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
-- Petronius
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
-- Petronius

#Medicine #Mind #Physicians
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
-- Petronius

#Latin #Hands #Favors
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
-- Petronius

#Money #Purses #Pennies

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