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Pietro Aretino
Pietro Aretino
Italian Poet
Born: Apr 20, 1492
Died: Oct 21, 1556
Because Genius Heart Love Truth You
Related authors: Antonio Porchia Cesare Pavese Dante Alighieri Eugenio Montale Persius Petrarch Torquato Tasso
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino
Love Truth Me Relationship You Hate Telling Would Lies Adore Sooner Because Than Love You
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. Pietro Aretino
Love Winter Genius Spring Us Let Us
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. Pietro Aretino
Heart Mind Calamities Cowardice Ought High Bear Bearing Since Them Grandeur Flee Fleeing Appears
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. Pietro Aretino
Friendship Wisdom Better Greater Because None Friends Than Us Granted Keep Things Treasure
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame. Pietro Aretino
Work Man Genius Free Master Style Own Living Enough Earn Others Worry Guide About My Own Free Man Well-Being Without Am Go Cease Fame Model Themselves Copy Need

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