Dante Alighieri Quotes
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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.
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The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
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Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.
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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
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In His will, our peace.
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Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts... Beyond the range of human intellect.
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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
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Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.
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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness.
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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
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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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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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I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.
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Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.