4 Quotes & Sayings By Petrus Borel

Petrus Borel was born in Como, Italy, and died in Rome. He was a 19th century painter and a pupil of Francesco Hayez. The illustrations for his books were done by an engraver named Pietro Bembo. He was a scholar of Rubens and a friend of the Italian poet Giambattista Marino Read more

In his early years he worked as a lithographer at Bologna. His illustrations appeared in many publications including the book "Pedagogical Principles" by John Stuart Mill. Borel's most famous work was his illustrations for the book "Giambattista Marino e i suoi poemi" (1904) by the Italian poet Giambattista Marino.

Borel is best remembered for his illustrations of Dante Alighieri's Inferno, published in 1883.

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To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one’s lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created. Petrus Borel
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In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse. Petrus Borel
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It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men. Petrus Borel