More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
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.
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
