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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Do as we say, and not as we do.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
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.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
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.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
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.
