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Titus Quintus Fulvius appears in Filomena’s tenth tale (X, 8), where he is a noble Roman youth and brother of Fulvia. When he travels to Athens to study, he becomes best friends with Gisippus. He is the recipient of Gisippus’s generosity when his friend hands over his fiancée, Sophronia, with whom Titus is hopelessly in love. And he shows his own generosity when he doesn’t hesitate to risk his life to save Gisippus from execution for a crime he didn’t commit.
Titus Quintus Fulvius Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Titus Quintus Fulvius or refer to Titus Quintus Fulvius. 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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Titus Quintus Fulvius Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Titus Quintus Fulvius or refer to Titus Quintus Fulvius. 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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