Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes

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

Giovanni Boccaccio
Do as we say, not as we do.

Giovanni Boccaccio
A kissed mouth doesn't lose its freshness, for like the moon it always renews itself.

Giovanni Boccaccio
I have always been given to understand…that whereas a single cock is quite sufficient for ten hens, ten men are hard put to satisfy one woman.

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They dug for each graveyard a huge trench, in which they laid the corpses as they arrived by hundreds at a time, piling them up tier upon tier as merchandise is stowed in a ship.

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Gracious ladies, one black crow among many white doves will more set off their beauty than the whitest swan could do.

Giovanni Boccaccio
And times without number it happened that two priests would be on their way to bury someone, holding a cross before them, only to find that bearers carrying three or four additional biers would fall in behind them; so that whereas the priests had thought they only had one burial to attend to, they in fact had six or eight, and sometimes more.
During the Black Death

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

Giovanni Boccaccio
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