Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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I love to doubt as well as know.
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Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
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I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
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Superbia, invidia e avarizia sonole tre faville c'hanno i cuori accesi.
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'Vexilla regis prodeunt inferniverso di noi; però dinanzi mira,'disse 'l maestro mio, 'se tu 'l discerni.'
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But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.
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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
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From a little spark may burst a flame.
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Or tu chi se', che vuo' sedere a scranna,per giudicar di lungi mille migliacon la veduta corta d'una spanna?
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
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Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
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La moralitade è bellezza de la filosofia.
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The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.
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A maggior forza e a miglior naturaliberi soggiacete; e quella criala mente in voi, che 'l ciel no ha in sua cura.Però, se 'l mondo presente disvia,in voi è la cagione, in voi si cheggia.
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Io son colui, che tenni ambo le chiaviDel cor di Federigo, e sì le volsi,Serrando e disserrando, sì soavi.
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Nel suo profondo vidi che s'interna,legato con amore in un volume,ciò che per l'universo si squaderna.
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La notte che le cose ci nasconde.
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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.