# Giovanni Boccaccio

- Quotes: 25
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio

## Books

- [The Decameron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron.md) — 48 quotes

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> An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe.

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> Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan.

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> They banish us to the kitchen, there to tell stories to the cat.

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> People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.

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

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> A sweet little mouth with lips like rubies.

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> Shortly afterwards the moon rose with a very clear sky, and [he] kept watch.

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> Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.

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> A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.

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> 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.

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> If of thy talons, Love, be quit I may,
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> I deem it scarce can be
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> But other fangs I may elude for aye.

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> The deceived has the better of the deceiver.

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