Giovanni Boccaccio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Past #Compassion #Suffering
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

#Inspirational #Dark #Night
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

#Preaching
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio

#Climbing #Mountain #Desert
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio

#Envy #Poverty #World
People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio

#Believe #People
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio

#Used #Said #Persons
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio

#Heart #Noble #Golden
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio

#Sympathy #Condolences #Compassion
Kissed mouth donâ€™t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio

#Moon #Doe #Mouths
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio

#Men #Roosters #Hens
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio

#Heaven #Earth #Lovers

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