Top 100 Dante Alighieri Quotes
#1. Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
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#2. He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first
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#4. Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.
That without hope we live in desire.
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#5. He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
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#6. It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do.
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#7. your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.
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#8. At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
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#10. My will and my desire were both revolved, as is a wheel in even motion driven, by Love, which moves the sun and other stars.
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#11. Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
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#12. Three dispositions adverse to Heaven's still, - Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.
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#13. The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.
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#14. Life is a " vale of tears" a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Inferno; Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi)
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#15. The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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#16. Though every city shall he hunt her down,
Until he shall driven her back to Hell,
There from whence envy first did let her loose.
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#18. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.
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#19. Being by such a noble lover kissed,
This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided,
Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating.
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#20. It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
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#21. I know this is a major cultural artifact but it's bad for the community.
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#22. My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
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#23. While the everlasting pleasure, that did full On Beatrice shine, with second view From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul Contented; vanquishing me with a beam Of her soft smile, she spake: Turn thee, and list. These eyes are not thy only Paradise.
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#24. There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
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#25. Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.
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#26. Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct.
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#27. Knowledge comes
Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
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#28. The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
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#29. Well, if the kid screws up, then I'll just have to kick his ass.
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#30. The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
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#31. I might then squeeze the juices of my thought more fully out of me
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#34. If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
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#35. Those ancients who in poetry presented
the golden age, who sang its happy state,
perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place.
Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here
were every fruit and never-ending spring;
these streams
the nectar of which poets sing.
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#36. There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery
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#37. There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.
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#39. 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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#40. In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
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#42. Soft as the early morning breeze of May,
which heralds dawn, rich with the grass and flowers,
spreading in waves their breathing fragrances,
I felt a breeze strike soft upon my brow:
I felt a wing caress it, I am sure,
I sensed the sweetness of ambrosia.
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#44. Lying in a featherbed will not bring you 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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#45. Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
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#48. As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
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#49. Master," I said, "when the great clarion fades into the voice of thundering Omniscience, what of these agonies? Will they be the same, or more, or less, after the final sentence?
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#51. Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
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#52. If you, free as you are of every weight
had stayed below, then that would be as strange
as living flame on earth remaining still.
And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.
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#53. This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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#54. It was the hour of morning,
when the sun mounts with those stars
that shone with it when God's own love
first set in motion those fair things
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#55. The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
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#57. I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
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#58. But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
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#60. Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts ... Beyond the range of human intellect.
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#62. But the stars that marked our starting fall away.
We must go deeper into greater pain,
for it is not permitted that we stay.
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#63. And just as he who unwills what he wills and shifts what he intends to seek new ends so that he's drawn from what he had begun, so was I in the midst of that dark land, because, with all my thinking, I annulled the task I had so quickly undertaken.
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#64. You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left.
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#65. Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)
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#66. Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
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#67. Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words
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#68. And my Guide to me: He will not wake again until the angel trumpet sounds the day on which the host shall come to judge all men. Then shall each soul before the seat of Mercy return to its sad grave and flesh and form to hear the edict of Eternity.
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#69. Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.
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#70. When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon
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#72. A fight every now and again does make life more interesting. Don't ya think?
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#73. Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
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#74. Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together,
let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
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#75. Madness it is to hope that human minds
can ever understand the Infinite
that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.
Be satisfied with quia unexplained,
O Human race! If you knew everything,
no need for Mary to have borne a son.
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#76. Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
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#77. 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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#80. Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
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#81. My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus!
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#82. Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves
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#83. As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
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#84. Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow
Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
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#85. Turn around, and keep your eyes closed shut, For if the Gorgon, Medusa, does appear, and you see her, You would never be able to return upward.
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#86. There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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#87. They lived before the Christian age began. They paid no reverence, as was due to God. And in this number I myself am one. 40 For such deficiencies, no other crime, we all are lost yet only suffer harm through living in desire, but hopelessly.
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#88. The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
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#89. In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
Gone from the path direct.
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#90. ... I am left with less
than one drop of my blood that does not tremble.
I recognize the the signs of the old flame.
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#91. When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
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#92. So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute.
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#94. In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.
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#96. Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
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#97. He, in his love songs, and his tales in prose,
was without peer
and if fools claim Limoges
produced a better, there are always those
who measure worth by popular acclaim,
ignoring principles of art and reason
to base their judgments on the author's name.
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#98. This the Master said; and he turned me around Himself, and not trusting my own hands, He covered my eyes with his own. For those of you who are educated, understand the hidden meaning Of the strange words that follow!
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#100. Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!
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