Dante Alighieri Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Lying Quotes

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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…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

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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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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

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Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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I made my own house be my gallows.

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Follow your path, and let the people talk.

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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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Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

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The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

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Abandon every hope, you who enter.

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No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

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The devil is not as black as he is painted.

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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

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