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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
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.
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.
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.
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
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.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.