Petronius Quotes

While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

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

The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.

He has gone over to the majority.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.

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

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

What power has law where only money rules?

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.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

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

The world wants to be deceived.

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

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

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

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

One good turn deserves another.