While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni BoccaccioKissed mouth donโt lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Giovanni BoccaccioHeaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Giovanni BoccaccioAlthough love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.
Giovanni Boccaccio