Best 11 quotes of Giovanni Boccaccio on MyQuotes

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.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.