Dante Alighieri Quotes About Lying

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  • The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

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    Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.208, Penguin
  • Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

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  • There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

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    Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.80, Penguin
  • 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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    Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet
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