Dante Alighieri Quotes

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

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

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Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.

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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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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

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The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

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

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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

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The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract.

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

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Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.

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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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