More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
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.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
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.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
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.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast.