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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
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
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.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
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 the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
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.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
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.
