Gaius Petronius Arbiterwas a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian era... (wikipedia)
Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth please, and long will please, never, Can this decay, but is beginning ever
We know that you are mad with much learning
Find here what each desires: men's pleasure goes - Strange ways: one pulls a thorn and one a rose
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
He has gone over to the majority.
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it 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.'
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
One good turn deserves another.
What power has law where only money rules.
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
The world wants to be deceived...
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.
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
The mind longs for what it has missed.