Dante Alighieri Quotes - Page 2

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Kindness, Waiting, Needs

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• Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

  Dante Alighieri

  Mankind

  Dante Alighieri (2009). “On World-Government Or de Monarchia”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Simple, Deep Meaning, Simple Words

  Dante Alighieri (1995). “Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.29, Indiana University Press

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• O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Judging, Judgment

  Homer, Aristophanes, Terence, Luís de Camões, Perseus (1822). “Works of the British Poets: The vision of Dante Alighieri, tr. by H.F. Cary”, p.292

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• Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

  Dante Alighieri

  Freedom, Choices, Mind

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• Beauty awakens the soul to act.

  Dante Alighieri

  Beauty, Spiritual, Soul

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• My course is set for an uncharted sea.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sea, Uncharted, Courses

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.8, Penguin

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• The devil is not as black as he is painted.

  Dante Alighieri

  Black, Devil, Divine Comedy

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• I love to doubt as well as know.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Doubt, Internet

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• Nature is the art of God.

  Dante Alighieri

  Art, Nature, Travel

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• In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, New Life

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

  Dante Alighieri

  World, Follow Me, Babbling

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

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• The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

  Dante Alighieri

  Footprint, Goodness, Divine

  Richard William Church, Dante Alighieri, Frederick John Church (1879). “Dante: to which is added a translation of De monarchia ; an essay”

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Fall, Race, Wind

  Dante Alighieri (1919). “The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri”

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• Without hope we live in desire.

  Dante Alighieri

  Desire, Without Hope

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

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• Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Heaven, Wheels

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Lost, Breaths, Dies

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.284, Penguin

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• Follow your own star!

  Dante Alighieri

  Being Yourself, Stars, Inspire

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars

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

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• ...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

  Dante Alighieri

  Light, Desire, Delight

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• They yearn for what they fear for.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inferno

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

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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

  Sorry, Taken, Angel

  Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”

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• Love insists the loved loves back

  Dante Alighieri

  Inferno

  Dante Alighieri (2007). “Inferno”, Vintage

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• This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Mountain, Ascent, Easier

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• Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Evil

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song VI, 74, 1321.

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