Dante Alighieri Quotes

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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

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.

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

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Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain it.

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

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The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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

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Give us this day the daily manna, without which, in this rough desert, he backward goes, who toils most to go on.

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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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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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O pure and noble conscience, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

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

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Do not rest in so profound a doubt except she tell it thee, who shall be a light between truth and intellect. I know not if thou understand: I speak of Beatrice.

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Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

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

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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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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.

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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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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

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

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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

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If I thought my answer were to one who would ever return to the world, this flame should stay without another movement; but since none ever returned alive from this depth, if what I hear is true, I answer thee without fear of infamy.

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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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Ye that are of good understanding, note the doctrine that is hidden under the veil of the strange verses!

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

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