"Human it is to have compassion on the…" — Giovanni Boccaccio
"Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy."
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12 Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio has 12 quotes on this site.
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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
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No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
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Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey…
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People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
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Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be…
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To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required…
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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of…
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Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
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Do as we say, and not as we do.
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More Compassion Quotes
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
— Karen Armstrong
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st…
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is…
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
— Karen Armstrong
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
— Sri Aurobindo
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
— Teresa of Avila
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— James M. Barrie
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
— Gary Bauer
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