"To have compassion for those who suffer is……" — Giovanni Boccaccio
"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 and have managed to find it in others."
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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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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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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 Comfort Quotes
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one of 2,510 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
— Jane Austen
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is…
— Teresa of Avila
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day…
— Joseph Addison
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and…
— Adele
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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