Dante Alighieri Quotes, Memories Quotes, Book Quotes

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

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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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The well heeded well heard.

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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

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You shall leave everything you love.

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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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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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...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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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

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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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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon

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The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

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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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Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

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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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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

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