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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
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.
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.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
