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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.
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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
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.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
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.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
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.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
