Dante Alighieri Quotes, Language Quotes, Muse Quotes

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

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I love to doubt as well as know.

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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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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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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

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The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

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O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

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From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

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There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge.

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

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

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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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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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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

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