More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
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.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
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.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
