Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Lo pianto stesso lì pianger non lascia,e 'l duol che truova in su li occhi rintoppo,si volge in entro a far crescer l'ambascia.
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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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From a little spark may burst a flame.
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The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
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In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.
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Che l'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,Segue, come il Maestro fa il discente,Sì che vostr'arte a Dio quasi è nipote.
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La moralitade è bellezza de la filosofia.
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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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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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Nel suo profondo vidi che s'interna,legato con amore in un volume,ciò che per l'universo si squaderna.
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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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The devil is not as black as he is painted.
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The purpose of the whole the Comedy and of this portion the Paradiso is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
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Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa...e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osacom'alma razional sanza ragione.
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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How come I never meet any nice girls?