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Pietro Aretino Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: April 20, 1492 - October 21, 1556

Birthday: April 20

Death: October 21

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.

- Pietro Aretino

source: "Pietro Aretino, the scourge of princes" by Edward Hutton, (p. 65), 1922.

topic: Men, Evil, Hats, Pendants

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