Quotes by Pietro Aretino

• I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
• If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
• 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.
• 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.