Dante Alighieri Quotes, Sad Quotes, Justice Quotes

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

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Go right on and listen as thou goest.

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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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I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

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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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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

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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.

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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

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He listens well who takes notes.

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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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