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Titus Quintus Fulvius
Gisippus, son of Chremes, is Titus Quintus Fulvius’s best friend in Filomena’s tenth tale (X, 8). He demonstrates both generosity and the power of friendship when he helps Titus to secretly marry his own fiancée, Sophronia, in his place. And, later, he’s the recipient of Titus’s generosity when his old friend saves him from execution, restores his lost fortune, and gives him Fulvia (Titus’s sister) as a wife.
Gisippus Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Gisippus or refer to Gisippus. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Day 10: Eighth Tale
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Friendship, then, is a most sacred thing, not only worthy of singular reverence, but eternally to be praised as the deeply discerning mother of probity and munificence, the sister of gratitude and charity, and the foe of hatred and avarice, ever ready, without waiting to be asked, to do virtuously unto others that which it would wish to be done unto itself. But very seldom in this day and age do we find two persons in whom its hallowed effects may be seen, this being the fault of men’s shameful and miserly greed, which, being solely concerned with seeking its own advantage, has banished friendship to perpetual exile beyond earth’s farthest limits.
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Gisippus Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Gisippus or refer to Gisippus. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Day 10: Eighth Tale
Quotes
Friendship, then, is a most sacred thing, not only worthy of singular reverence, but eternally to be praised as the deeply discerning mother of probity and munificence, the sister of gratitude and charity, and the foe of hatred and avarice, ever ready, without waiting to be asked, to do virtuously unto others that which it would wish to be done unto itself. But very seldom in this day and age do we find two persons in whom its hallowed effects may be seen, this being the fault of men’s shameful and miserly greed, which, being solely concerned with seeking its own advantage, has banished friendship to perpetual exile beyond earth’s farthest limits.
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