"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were……" — Giovanni Boccaccio

"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

— Giovanni Boccaccio

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12 Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio

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

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

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More Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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