Giovanni Boccaccio

“A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.”

“The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.”

“The wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off to avoid having them stolen from under you.”

“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.”

“One of the greatest follies of which a man can be guilty is to flatter himself that he knows what he knows not.”

“It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.”

“No-one is so foolish as to waste his talents in the thankless task of trying to please everyone.”

“A beautiful woman is a practical joke.”

“Do as we say, and not as we do.”

“Nothing is so dear as what you're about to lose.”

“Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.”

“It is better to repent of having sinned than to repent of having done nothing.”

“Kissing don't last: cookery do!”

“While we are in this world, we are held inseparably by the bonds of love.”

“It is a wondrous thing how fleet and swift is the mind of man, how it can fly from east to west in a moment.”