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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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Pure and disposed to mount unto the stars.
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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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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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The loser, when a game of dice is done,
remains behind reviewing every roll
sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
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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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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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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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The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.
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There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.
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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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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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In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.
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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 man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
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Midway in our life's journey, I went astray
from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood.
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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
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Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
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To have heard without retaining does not make knowledge.
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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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No Science demonstrates its own subject, but presupposes it.
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When the game of hazard is broken up, he who loses remains sorrowful.
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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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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
[It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora
Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]
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Dante Alighieri
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Born:
May, 1265
Died:
September 14, 1321
(aged 56)
Bio:
Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages.
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