From 1.1 the quote that got me was when Sir Ciappelletto was confessing all of his sins to the priest on his death bed. The two brothers that were there just thought he was lying to the priest as he always did in life. But if Sir Ciappelletto lied so much in life, why would he risk lying to a priest and go to hell. And it is just as everyone knew he always lied, so who’s to know that what he was telling the priest was in fact the truth about his life; and how he saw all the events that happened to him. This part of the story tells you that you can decide to believe or not to believe what people say, only they know the truth.
From the second story I enjoyed the quote that Abraham told his friend Giannotto what he saw when he went to Rome to observe the heads of the Christian faith, to see whether or not he would want to convert to Christianity. If you read it over again you see that Abraham joined, because he saw all the wrong this that the church. In his eyes he saw them as wrong, but they were also enjoying themselves in food, drink and women. That or you can say he converted not to join them but to save them, as he was a righteous man; he would go and bring them back to the path of righteousness.
And from the fourth story the quote that tells us that the Abbot and the monk had the young beautiful girl often returned to the monastery for the two of them. This shows us that even if you are a holy man, you are still a man and can be tempted by the flesh.
And something that I got from reading all of the stories is that whenever you try to entrap someone, make sure that you are the smarter one, because if not they will most likely figure out your plan and entrap you making you feel dumb for even trying to entrap them.
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