Giovanni Boccaccio Quotations

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

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.

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

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

Do as we say, and not as we do.