More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
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.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
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.
