Dante Alighieri - Man Quotes

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Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, and the manner still hurts me.

Dante Alighieri
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

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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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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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Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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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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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.

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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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