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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
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.
it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
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.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
