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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
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.
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.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
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.
