Dante Alighieri Quotes

• Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri

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• e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

  Dante Alighieri

  Divina Commedia "Inferno" canto 34, l. 139 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.294, Vintage

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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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  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Portable Dante”, p.282, Penguin

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• I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

  Dante Alighieri

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• Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

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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?

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  Inspirational  

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.393, Penguin

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• The secret of getting things done is to act!

  Dante Alighieri

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• O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

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  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song III, 8, 1321.

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.54, Penguin

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• Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

  Dante Alighieri

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 911-917, 1922.

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• Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.

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  "The Trilogy: Or Dante's Three Visions".

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• If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri (1879). “The 'De Monarchia' of Dante”

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• Small projects need much more help than great.

  Dante Alighieri

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• Without hope we live in desire.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• From a little spark may burst a flame.

  Dante Alighieri

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• Abandon every hope, you who enter.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Southward Singleton (1989). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno (2 v.)”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

  Dante Alighieri

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• 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

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.433, Penguin

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• All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri, Claudia Hamilton Ramsay (1862). “Dante's Divina Commedia Translated Into English, in the Metre and Triple Rhyme of the Original with Notes by Ramsay: Purgatorio”, p.77

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• Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

  Dante Alighieri

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• This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

  Dante Alighieri

  "Inferno", III. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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

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  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1949). “Poems & translations, 1850-1870: together with the prose story 'Hand and soul'”

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• Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

  Dante Alighieri

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• Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

  Dante Alighieri

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI. 93, 1321.

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• Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

  Dante Alighieri

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• But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri, Flaxman (1857). “Dante”, p.104

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• That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.

  Dante Alighieri

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