26 Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

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.

Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]

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

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

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

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

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