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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
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.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men.
