Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron (1351)

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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.

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

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

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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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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.

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