Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes

#1. No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

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#2. Fiammetta, whose wavy tresses fell in a flood of gold over her white and delicate shoulders

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#3. It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

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#4. In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

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#5. Kissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

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#6. Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

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#7. In this world, you only get what you grab for.

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

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#9. The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast [...]

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

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#11. My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

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#12. While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

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#13. 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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#14. People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

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#15. Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy

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#16. Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

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