Dante Alighieri Quotes, Pain Quotes, Dark Quotes

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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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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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven

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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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He is not always at ease who laughs.

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

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You shall leave everything you love.

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The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

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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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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

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The path to paradise begins in hell.

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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.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

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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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