Dante Alighieri Quotes

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The path to paradise begins in hell.

Dante Alighieri

Paradise, Path, Hell

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If you give people light, they will find their own way.

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Light, People, Giving

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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

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Meaningful, Thinking, Journey

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Everywhere is here and every when is now.

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Time

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Follow your path, and let the people talk.

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People, Path

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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

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Baby, Stars, Children

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
[This miserable mode
Maintain the melancholy souls of those
Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

Dante Alighieri

Soul, Neutrality, Moral

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If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

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World, Causes, Ifs

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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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Spring, Speak, Gentle

Dante Alighieri, “There Is A Gentle Thought”

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

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Secret Love, Done, Getting High

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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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Knowledge, Men, Divine Comedy

'Divina Commedia' 'Inferno' canto 26, l. 118

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

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Love, Romantic, Clock Is Ticking

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The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.

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Love, Spiritual, Mirrors

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

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People, Way, Path

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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

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Faith, Taken, Fate

Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy: Paradise”, Xist Publishing

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I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
Only those elements time cannot wear
Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

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Omnipotence, Cities, Justice

Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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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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Life, Dark, Journey

Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno”, p.23, Oxford University Press

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From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

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Flames, Sparks, Risen

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

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Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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Love can move the Sun and the stars.

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Stars, Moving, Sun

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

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Time, Growing Up, Loss

"Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song III, 78, 1321.

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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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Blow, Men, Sight

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

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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

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Stars, Moving, Sun

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

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You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.

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Pals, Ugly, Ass

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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

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Memories, Book, New Life

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Born: 1265
Died: September 14, 1321
Occupation: Poet
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