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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.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Read
Lead
Power
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.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Compassion
Comfort
Human
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Farmers
Rooster
Sufficient
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Indecent
Person
Used
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Kissed
Contrary
Moon
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
World
Get
Grab
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Heaven
Enjoyment
Experienced
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Human
Compassion
Unhappy
Do as we say, and not as we do.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Do
Say
We
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Wrongs
Distant
Condemn
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Affairs
World
Alone
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.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Grievous
Believe
Transport
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.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Resentment
Wrath
Person
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Beginning
Wayfarers
Mountain
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Golden
Suited
Heart
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovane
Diamante
Agevolmente
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Senseless
Concealed
Appearance
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.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Cottages
Heaven
Palaces
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.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Common
Acceptable
God
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Mejor
Saben
Mismas