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Quote of Giovanni Boccaccio - A man's nobility is not affected...


Biography - Giovanni Boccaccio:

Italian writer and poet.
Born: 1313 - Died: 1375
Period:
14th century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

A man's nobility is not affected by poverty, as it is by riches.



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(French)



French
La pauvreté n'ôte de noblesse à personne, la richesse oui.




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Quotes for: wealth


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Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.





The wise man is rich





Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.





To love is to find one's riches outside oneself.





If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.











Quotes for: poverty


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Quotes about poverty:


Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.





Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.





As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.





Abundance makes me poor.





A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.





Another cause of our poverty lies in our new needs.











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Giovanni Boccaccio also said...


Things which are without measure may not long endure.





It is a common saying, that the deceiver lies at the mercy of the deceived;





A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.





Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.





People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.












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