Pietro AretinoThinkers

Jesus Christ is a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side.

Learning is the propriety of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

War is an art like the art of the courtesan... indeed, they might be called sisters, since both are the slaves of desperation.

Winter is the spring of genius, for a quite different sort of conversation is occasioned around a fire than around the shadow of a beech tree.

Winter is the spring of genius.