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

And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world. — Trudy Wallis

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

What power has law where only money rules. — Petronius

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

So, Maximus the Fellatio Trainer - how does your prick feel about scratchy barbarian beards?"

Lucius Petronius — J.P. Kenwood

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination. — Petronius

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

The mind longs for what it has missed. — Petronius

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. — Petronius

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

Women are one and all a set of vultures. — Petronius

A man always has a choice — Lorraine Heath

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

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

The tighter your grip, the less you have to hold.
-The Pythian Scrolls — Aedan Byrnes

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit. — Petronius

I took several deep gulps of air, which filled my lungs, and it was as if each pore on my skin had absorbed some of his musk. — Sharlyn G. Branson

Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He has gone over to the majority. — Petronius

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear. — Compay Segundo

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. — Petronius

One good turn deserves another. — Petronius

Heaven is equally distant everywhere. — Petronius

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

A house is not a home. — Polly Adler

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

Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible. — J.M. Robertson

If you could understand by yourself why a thing was true, you would believe it more than just having it told to you by a teacher. — Kate Griffin

It is fear that first brought gods into the world. — Petronius

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

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. — Petronius

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

So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation. — Sherman Alexie

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car. — Abraham Zapruder

Care has its own effect. It completes the feeling of love. — Tarang Sinha

Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and — Shashi Tharoor

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death. — Earl Nightingale