Quotes with petronius

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• He has gone over to the majority.

  ― Petronius
  Roman writer (27 - 66)
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• It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

  ― Petronius
  Roman writer (27 - 66)
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• Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.

  ― Bee Wilson
  British food writer, journalist and historian
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Subjects in these quotes:

• voyeuristic
• trimalchio
• petronius
• satyricon
• dormice
• thrill

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