Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes

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• 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.
• Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
• No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
• Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
• People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
• In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
• Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes…
• 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…
• 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…
• Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
• Do as we say, and not as we do.

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