Best quotes from The Decameron

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.

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

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast. . .

Therefore, I can easily attest to what wise men say is true: only misery is without envy in this world.

Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.