Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. - Petronius
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
- Petronius
What power has law where only money rules? - Petronius
What power has law where only money rules?
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination. - Petronius
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses. - Petronius
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you. - Petronius
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
Women are one and all a set of vultures. - Petronius
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality. - Petronius
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
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
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.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. - Petronius
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
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