Dante Alighieri Quotes
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From a little spark may burst a flame.
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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
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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 glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.
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Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
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The devil is not as black as he is painted.
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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
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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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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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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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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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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ché cima di giudicio non s'avvallaperché foco d'amor compia in un puntociò che de' sodisfar chi qui s'astalla.
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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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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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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.