"People tend to believe the bad rather than…" — Giovanni Boccaccio
"People tend to believe the bad rather than the good."
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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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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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
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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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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 Bad Quotes
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
— Richard Bach
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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