Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

- Petronius

What power has law where only money rules?

- Petronius

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

- Petronius

Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

- Petronius

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

- Petronius

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

- Petronius

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

- 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.

- Petronius

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

- Petronius