Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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Amor, ch'al cor gentil ratto s'apprende,prese costui de la bella personache mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.Amor, ch'a nullo amato amar perdona,mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona.
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.
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Che sempre l'omo in cui pensier rampollasovra pensier, da sé dilunga il segno,perché la foga l'un de l'altro insolla.
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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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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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Con povertà volesti anzi virtuteche gran ricchezza posseder con vizio.
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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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'Vexilla regis prodeunt inferniverso di noi; però dinanzi mira,'disse 'l maestro mio, 'se tu 'l discerni.'
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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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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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Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
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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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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
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La moralitade è bellezza de la filosofia.
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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
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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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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
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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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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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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
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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.
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La notte che le cose ci nasconde.