Petronius
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.Collection: Political
The mind longs for what it has missed.Collection: Mind
What power has law where only money rules?Collection: Law
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.Collection: Form
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.Collection: People
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.Collection: Home
Women are one and all a set of vultures.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Sweet
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.Collection: God
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumbCollection: Stupid
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.Collection: Believe
The world wants to be deceived.Collection: World
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.Collection: Men
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.Collection: Political
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.Collection: Heaven
While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.Collection: Lasts
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.Collection: Hope
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.Collection: Believe
One good turn deserves another.Collection: Fables
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'Collection: Dog
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.Collection: Doctors
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.Collection: Latin
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.Collection: Medicine
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.Collection: Money
He has gone over to the majority.Collection: Death