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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
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.
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.
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.
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.
