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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Do as we say, and not as we do.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
