Petronius quotes:

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.

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 was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible."

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

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

What power has law where only money rules.

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

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

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 doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

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

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

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.

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.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

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

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

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

One good turn deserves another.

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

The world wants to be deceived...

The mind longs for what it has missed.

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