“I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

—  Pietro Aretino

Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 152

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Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer 1492–1556

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