"Do as we say, and not as we…" — Giovanni Boccaccio

"Do as we say, and not as we do."

— Giovanni Boccaccio

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12 Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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…
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required…
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of…
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

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