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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
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.
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
