Petronius Quotes
Petronius (c. 27 – 66 AD) was a Roman writer of the Neronian age; he was a noted satirist. He is identified with C.
Also known as: C. Petronius Arbiter, Petronius Arbiter, Titus Petronius, Satyricon
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A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.
With the mad it is necessary to be mad, unless you would be left all alone.
One good turn deserves another.
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
The mind wishes for what it has missed, and occupies itself with retrospective contemplation.
No cloistered professor had as yet darkened men’s intellects.
What power has law where only money rules?
This is the reason, in my opinion, why young men grow up such blockheads in the schools, because they neither see nor hear one single thing connected with the usual circumstances of everyday life.
Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by severe discipline.
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
Delight of lust is gross and brief
And weariness treads on desire.
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Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
Almost the whole world are players.
Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf.
What is lawful is of little value.
The studied spontaneity of Horace.
He has joined the great majority.
A noble, and so to say chaste, style is not overloaded with ornament, not turgid; its own natural beauty gives it elevation.
Alas! how less than naught are we;
Fragile life’s thread, and brief our day!
What this is now, we all shall be;
Drink and make merry while you may.