26 Quotes by 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.

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    It’s better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

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    Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

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    Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.

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    They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.

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    Of women he was as fond as dogs of the stick; but in the contrary he delighted more than any filthy fellow alive.

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