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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
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.
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 this world, you only get what you grab for.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
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.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
