#Quote
More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
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.
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.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
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.
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
