Dante Alighieri Quotes, People Quotes

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

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This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

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Love can move the Sun and the stars.

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

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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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The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

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

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

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Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

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Honor is the greatest poet.

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

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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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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

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