Best Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio (Top 10)
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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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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.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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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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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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Kissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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In this world, you only get what you grab for.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
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More Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes
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Do as we say, and not as we do
Giovanni Boccaccio
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Do as we say, and not as we do.
[Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]
Giovanni Boccaccio