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More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
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.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
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.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
