Best Quotes by Dante Alighieri (Top 10)
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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The path to paradise begins in hell.
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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
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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.
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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
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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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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
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More Dante Alighieri Quotes
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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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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 secret of getting things done is to act!
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Nature is the art of God.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
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In His will, our peace.
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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From a little spark may burst a flame.
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
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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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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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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
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He listens well who takes notes.
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
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Follow your own star!
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These have not the hope to die.
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
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