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Giovanni Boccaccio QUOTES

Giovanni Boccaccio QUOTES

1 " You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark. "

― Giovanni Boccaccio

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

― Giovanni Boccaccio

3 " <...> в Берлинцоне, в стране басков, в области, называемой Живи-лакомо, где виноградные лозы подвязывают сосисками, гусь идет за копейку, да еще с гусенком впридачу; есть там гора вся из тертого пармезана, на которой живут люди и ничем другим не занимаются, как только готовят макароны и клецки, варят их в отваре из каплунов и бросают вниз; кто больше поймает, у того больше и бывает; а поблизости течет поток из Верначчьо, лучшего вина еще никто не пивал, и нет в нем ни капли воды.("Декамерон", Дж. Бокаччо) "

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

4 " La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate. "

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

5 " 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. "

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

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

― Giovanni Boccaccio

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

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

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

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

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

― Giovanni Boccaccio

10 " Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy "

― Giovanni Boccaccio

11 " Do as we say, and not as we do "

― Giovanni Boccaccio

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

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

13 " „Често човек си мисли, че е далече от щастието, а то с тихи стъпки вече е дошло до него. "

― Giovanni Boccaccio

14 " The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast [...] "

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

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

― Giovanni Boccaccio

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

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

17 " And the plague gathered strength as it was transmitted from the sick to the healthy through normal intercourse, just as fire catches on to any dry or greasy object placed too close to it. Nor did it stop there: not only did the healthy incur the disease and with it the prevailing mortality by talking to or keeping company with the sick--they had only to touch the clothing or anything else that had come into contact with or been used by the sick and the plague evidently was passed to the one who handled those things. "

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

18 " it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury. "

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

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

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron

20 " Umana cosa è l'aver compassione agli afflitti; e come che a ciascuna persona stea bene, a coloro è massimamente richiesto li quali già hanno di conforto avuto mestiere, e hannol trovato in alcuni: fra' quali, se alcuno mai n'ebbe bisogno, o gli fu caro, o già ne ricevette piacere, io son uno di quegli. "

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron