Dante Alighieri Quotes

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri
No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

Dante Alighieri
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

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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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Heaven calls you, and revolves around you, displaying to you its eternal beauties..

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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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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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O Supreme Light, that so high upliftest Thyself from mortal conceptions, re-lend to my mind a little of what Thou didst appear, and make my tongue so powerful that it may be able to leave one single spark of Thy glory for the folk to come.

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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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I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
Only those elements time cannot wear
Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

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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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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.

Dante Alighieri
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray
from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood.

Dante Alighieri
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

Dante Alighieri
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?

Dante Alighieri
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.

Dante Alighieri
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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Distinct with less and greater lights, the Galaxy so whitens between the poles of the world that it makes even the wise to question.

Dante Alighieri
And thence we issued forth again to see the stars.

Dante Alighieri
Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

Dante Alighieri
The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
In Italian: Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.

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The entire universe is naught else than a footprint of divine goodness.

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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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