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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
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.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
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.
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.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
