Giovanni Boccaccio
Quotes
An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe.
Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan.
They banish us to the kitchen, there to tell stories to the cat.
People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
A sweet little mouth with lips like rubies.
Shortly afterwards the moon rose with a very clear sky, and [he] kept watch.
Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.
A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.
The nature of wit is such that its bite must be like that of a sheep rather than a dog, for if it were to bite the listener like a dog, it would no longer be wit but abuse.
If of thy talons, Love, be quit I may,
I deem it scarce can be
But other fangs I may elude for aye.
The deceived has the better of the deceiver.
