Dante Alighieri Quotes, Squares Quotes, Sight Quotes

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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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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Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti. (Follow your road and let the people say).

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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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A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.

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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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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

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Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

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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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I made my own house be my gallows.

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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words

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But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

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If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

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... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

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