Dante Alighieri Quotes, Passion Quotes, Sin Quotes

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

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The well heeded well heard.

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Abandon every hope, you who enter.

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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

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O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.

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Without hope we live in desire.

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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

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I found myself within a forest dark.

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How come I never meet any nice girls?

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Beauty awakens the soul to act.

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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

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I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

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Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

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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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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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