More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men.
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
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.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
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.
