Dante Alighieri Quotes, May Quotes, Merit Quotes

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

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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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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

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No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

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Infinite goodness has such wide arms.

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…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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Still desiring, we live without hope.

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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

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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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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

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Beauty awakens the soul to act.

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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

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