Dante Alighieri Quotes

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To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

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In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.

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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

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There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.

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The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.

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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

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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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Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.

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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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Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them for fear the wicked there might glory over them.

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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Pure and disposed to mount unto the stars.

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If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

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Between his legs were hanging down his entrails; His heart was visible, and the dismal sack that maketh excrement of what is eaten.

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So my conscience chide me not, I am ready for Fortune as she wills.

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For to lose time is most displeasing to him who knows most.

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And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.

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Rarely does human worth rise through the branches, and this He wills also who gives it, that it may be sought from Him.

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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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Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

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

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Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

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With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.

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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.

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

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At once I understood, and I was sure this was that sect of evil souls who were hateful to God and to His enemies.

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The more a thing is perfect, the more if feels pleasure and pain.

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"Why is thy mind so entangled," said the Master [Virgil], "that thou slackenest thy pace? What is it to thee what they whisper there? Come after me and let the people talk. Stand like a firm tower that never shakes its top for blast of wind."

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What sweet thoughts, what longing led them to the woeful pass.

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