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
The most superior Petronius quotes that are simple and will have a huge impact on you
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions;
nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores.
A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
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.
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'
The mind longs for what it has missed.
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Everyone will find what he's looking for.
Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
He has gone over to the majority.
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
The world wants to be deceived.
One good turn deserves another.
What power has law where only money rules?
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
