Dante Alighieri Quotes

You shall leave everything you love.

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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

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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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O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

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

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

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Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

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At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

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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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Beauty awakens the soul to act.

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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

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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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I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

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The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

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