Giovanni Boccaccio

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Many a man has been ruined by his own folly.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Nothing is so much to be feared as evil report.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

To have compassion for the miseries of others is a true sign of virtue.

Women are wont to be more ready to do that for which they may have occasion to blush than for any other good and commendable deed.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

You must know, sir, that it is not the weight of the armor that fatigues the bearer, but the weight of the soul.

He who desires to see the living Homer nods to the blind Homer.

The parson who preaches the Gospel is like the sower who scatters the seed.

Love is a marvelous thing, but it can lead to madness.

Fortune is like the market, where many commodities are bought and sold, but few are worth the buying.