Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio

Do as we say, and not as we do.

Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio

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