Dante Alighieri quote: "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."

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to c...
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

He is not always at ease who laughs. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.]
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What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things. [It., Cio ch'io ved...
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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia ...
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The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.]
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Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day.
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [It., Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.]
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! [It., O dignit...
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may r...
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: ...
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Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.]
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Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as...
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Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. [It., Superbia, invidia ...
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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the...
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Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings...
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts n...
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.]
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Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta c...
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Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme...
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From little spark may burst a mighty flame.
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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night.
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")

Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.]
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There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. [Lat., Nessun...
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Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain thei...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The path to paradise begins in hell.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always
DANTE ALIGHIERI

And I — my head oppressed by horror — said:
"Master, what is it that I hear? Who are
t...
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Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Nature is the art of God.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
DANTE ALIGHIERI

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.
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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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These have not the hope to die.
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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 c...
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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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In His will is our peace.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

He listens well who takes notes.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Follow your own star!
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Abandon all hope, you who enter here!
DANTE ALIGHIERI

In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself astray in a dark wood
where the straig...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me am...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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I love to doubt as well as know.
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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
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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 ...
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the groun...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

From a little spark may burst a flame.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The secret of getting things done is to act!
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral cr...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation
echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; DANTE ALIGHIERI

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men
DANTE ALIGHIERI

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the groun...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost
DANTE ALIGHIERI

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

In His will is our peace.
DANTE (ALIGHIERI)

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
DANTE (ALIGHIERI)

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!.
DANTE (ALIGHIERI)

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
DANTE (ALIGHIERI)

Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Follow your own star!
DANTE (ALIGHIERI)

There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The experience of this sweet life.
L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
DANTE ALIGHIERI

A great flame follows a little spark.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time win we were happy.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their n...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
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...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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Love, that moves the sun and the other stars
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Uncouth tongues, horrible shriekings of despair, Shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, An...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

They yearn for what they fear for.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

your soul has been assailed by cowardice,
which often weighs so heavily on a man--
distrac...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Small projects need much more help than great ones.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The secret of getting things done is to act.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

From a little spark bursts a mighty flame
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Predestination! how remote and dim Thy root lies hidden from the intellect Which only glimpses the F...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

THE ARROW SEEN BEFORE, COMETH LESS RUDELY.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

She made what pleased her lawful
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Through me the way into the suffering city,Through me the way to the eternal pain,Through me the way...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

In the mid-course of our life
DANTE ALIGHIERI

We climbed up.until I finally saw through a round opening the beauteous things which Heaven holds. A...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! (words inscribed over the gates of Hell
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue a...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto ju...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Through me is the way to the city of woe.
Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.
Throu...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you
DANTE ALIGHIERI

I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The well heeded well heard.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps a...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

As the geometer intently seeks
to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on th...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
DANTE ALIGHIERI

I found myself within a forest dark,
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Those ancients who in poetry presented
the golden age, who sang its happy state,
perhaps,...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti
(Follow your road and let the people say)
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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pl...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Nessun maggior dolore
che ricordarsi del tempo felice
nella miseria...
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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

أحلك الاماكن في الجحيم هي لأولئك الذين يحافظون على حيا�...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pa...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusio...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The devil is not as black as he is painted.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto....
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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

These are the radiancies of the perfected vision that sees the good and step by step moves nearer wh...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Well do I see how the Eternal Ray, which, once seen, kindles love forevermore, already shines on you...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Open your mind to what I shall explain, then close around it, for it is no learning to understand wh...
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Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery--
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto
Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse;
Soli eravamo e ...
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Without Hope we live in desire.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let t...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Nature is the art of God
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Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta;...
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolu...
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
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And following its path, we took no care
To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-- so far,
T...
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We were men once, though we've become trees
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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm that,
DANTE ALIGHIERI

So that the Universe felt love,
by which, as somebelieve,
the world has many times been tu...
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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
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Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

To get back up to the shining world from there
My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,
DANTE ALIGHIERI

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabul...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things inn...
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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I am the way into the city of woe,
I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to go amon...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

It was the hour of morning,
when the sun mounts with those stars
that shone with it when G...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the
other shore; into eternal darkness;...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow s...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words
DANTE ALIGHIERI

But the stars that marked our starting fall away.
We must go deeper into greater pain,
for...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

From there we came outside and saw the stars
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amo...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way w...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first ...
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Ink to parchment, words to paper, glory to Beatrice.
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O anima cortese mantoana
Di cui la fama ancor nel mondo dura,
E durera quanto 'l moto lont...
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My course is set for an uncharted sea.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Dianzi, ne l’alba che procede al giorno,
quando l’anima tua dentro dormia
DANTE ALIGHIERI

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