Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Often a retrospect delights the mind.
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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Capo ha cosa fatta.
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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
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Se orazïone in prima non m'aitache surga sù di cuor che in grazia viva;l'altra che val, che 'n ciel non è udita?
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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
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Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
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Incontanente intesi e certo fuiche questa era la setta d'i cattivia Dio spiacenti e a' nemici sui.
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Vedi l'erbette, i fiori e li arbuscelliche qui la terra sol da sé produce.
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Non è il mondan romore altro ch'un fiatodi vento, ch'or vien quinci e or vien quindi,e muta nome perché muta lato.
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Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
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Ché tutto l'oro ch'è sotto la lunae che già fu, di quest'anime stanchepoterebbe farne posare una.
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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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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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A backward glance can often lift the heart.
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How come I never meet any nice girls?
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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.
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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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My course is set for an uncharted sea.
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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.