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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Do as we say, and not as we do.
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.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
