In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
Quotes from The Decameron — Giovanni Boccaccio
1313–1375 Italy
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A sweet little mouth with lips like rubies.
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The power of the pen is far greater than those people suppose who have not proved it by experience.
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People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.
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A kissed mouth doesn't lose its freshness, for like the moon it always renews itself.
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He who is wicked and held to be good, can cheat because no one imagines he would.
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Dying more like animals than human beings.
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A sin that's hidden is half forgiven.
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A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.
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Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
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Shortly afterwards the moon rose with a very clear sky, and [he] kept watch.
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They banish us to the kitchen, there to tell stories to the cat.
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An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe.
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The deceived has the better of the deceiver.
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While superfluity engenders disgust, appetite is but whetted when fruit is forbidden.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Giovanni Boccaccio (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.