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He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first By Dante Alighieri

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame. By Dante Alighieri

I make no other answer than the act, the Master said: "The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV] By Dante Alighieri

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact. By Dante Alighieri

... I am left with lessthan one drop of my blood that does not tremble.I recognize the the signs of the old flame. By Dante Alighieri

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. By Dante Alighieri

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. By Dante Alighieri

In the midway of this our mortal life,I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,Gone from the path direct. By Dante Alighieri

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel. By Dante Alighieri

Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. By Dante Alighieri

And what will bow your shoulders downwill be the vicious and worthless company with whom you will fall into this abyss. By Dante Alighieri

Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow. By Dante Alighieri

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading. By Dante Alighieri

Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.That without hope we live in desire. By Dante Alighieri

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing By Dante Alighieri

The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it. By Dante Alighieri

On march the banners of the King of Hell. By Dante Alighieri

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? By Dante Alighieri

O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense. By Dante Alighieri

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded. By Dante Alighieri

True love is never lost, not even by a bishop's or a priest's curse, that we cannot regain it, so long as hope has still its bit of green. By Dante Alighieri

And so we made our way across that heap of stones, which often moved beneath my feet because my weight was somewhat strange for them. By Dante Alighieri

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes. By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

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 By Dante Alighieri

When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder. By Dante Alighieri

And what is laughter but a flashing of the soul, that is, a light appearing externally as it is within. By Dante Alighieri

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. By Dante Alighieri

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost ... By Dante Alighieri

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth. By Dante Alighieri

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

Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame. By Dante Alighieri

Now you know how much my love for youburns deep in mewhen I forget about our emptiness,and deal with shadows as with solid things. By Dante Alighieri

My son,Here may indeed be torment, but not death. By Dante Alighieri

Three dispositions adverse to Heaven's still, - Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness. By Dante Alighieri

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stowSuch travails new and pains as met my glance! By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

He who best discerns the worth of time is most distressed whenever time is lost. By Dante Alighieri

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

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. By Dante Alighieri

And the shining strengthened me against the frightwhose agony had wracked the lake of my heartthrough all the terrors of that piteous night. By Dante Alighieri

The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness. By Dante Alighieri

As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still. By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain... By Dante Alighieri

I love to doubt as well as know."~ Dante's Inferno, Canto XI, 93: "non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata. By Dante Alighieri

They yearn for what they fear for. By Dante Alighieri

Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. By Dante Alighieri

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less. By Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life By Dante Alighieri

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. By Dante Alighieri

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed By Dante Alighieri

Sounds like you're overcompensating ... Besides, I didn't want you to get a creak in your neck from lookin' down at me. By Dante Alighieri

up yonder in the guzzling Germans' land, By Dante Alighieri

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. By Dante Alighieri

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost. By Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. By Dante Alighieri

If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head! By Dante Alighieri

Haste denies all acts their dignity. By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain. By Dante Alighieri

Knowledge comesOf learning well retain'd, unfruitful else. By Dante Alighieri

Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell! By Dante Alighieri

Being by such a noble lover kissed,This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided,Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating. By Dante Alighieri

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts ... Beyond the range of human intellect. By Dante Alighieri

Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds. By Dante Alighieri

In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him. By Dante Alighieri

These have not the hope to die. By Dante Alighieri

I might then squeeze the juices of my thought more fully out of me By Dante Alighieri

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment. By Dante Alighieri

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. By Dante Alighieri

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

Not foliage green, but of a fusk colour,Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertanglednot apple-tress were there, but thorns with poison. By Dante Alighieri

Because your question searches for deep meaning,I shall explain in simple words By Dante Alighieri

It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do. By Dante Alighieri

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it. By Dante Alighieri

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

Lady, you who are so great, so powerful,that who seeks grace without recourse to youwould have his wish fly upward without wings. By Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness. By Dante Alighieri

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. By Dante Alighieri

Thus you may understand that love aloneis the true seed of every merit in you,and of all acts for which you must atone. By Dante Alighieri

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 By Dante Alighieri

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

Midway in our life's journey, I went astrayfrom the straight road and woke to find myselfalone in a dark wood. By Dante Alighieri

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven. By Dante Alighieri

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

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. By Dante Alighieri

The only answer that I give to youis doing it," he said. "A just requestis to be met in silence, by the act. By Dante Alighieri

So many times a man's thoughts will waver, That it turns him back from honored paths, As false sight turns a beast, when he is afraid. By Dante Alighieri

It was the hour of morning,when the sun mounts with those starsthat shone with it when God's own lovefirst set in motion those fair things By Dante Alighieri

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats. By Dante Alighieri

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

That precious fruit which all men eagerly go searching for on many different boughs will give,today, peace to your hungry soul. By Dante Alighieri

Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! By Dante Alighieri

I'm not alone in misery of soul. By Dante Alighieri

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.) By Dante Alighieri

Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. By Dante Alighieri

Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge. By Dante Alighieri

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness By Dante Alighieri

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here. By Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow ... than to be mindful of the happy time. By Dante Alighieri

You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you By Dante Alighieri

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. By Dante Alighieri

One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful. By Dante Alighieri

Well, if the kid screws up, then I'll just have to kick his ass. By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

As at those words did I myself become;And all my love was so absorbed in Him,That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed. By Dante Alighieri

O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge. By Dante Alighieri

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me. By Dante Alighieri

The loser, when a game of dice is done,remains behind reviewing every rollsadly, and sadly wiser, and alone. By Dante Alighieri

Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say By Dante Alighieri

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared. By Dante Alighieri

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] By Dante Alighieri

CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life, By Dante Alighieri

toward the Mount.4 By Dante Alighieri

So word for word/My master spoke, and I asked him for the food/To fill the appetite these words inspired. By Dante Alighieri

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. By Dante Alighieri

How rough that wood was, wild, and terrible: By the mere thought my terror is renewed. By Dante Alighieri

There is a gentle thought that often springsto life in me, because it speaks of you. By Dante Alighieri

Through me, the way is to the suffering city; Through me, the way is to eternal pain; Through me, the way among the people lost. By Dante Alighieri

If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42 By Dante Alighieri

A fight every now and again does make life more interesting. Don't ya think? By Dante Alighieri

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom. By Dante Alighieri

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning. By Dante Alighieri

Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,Why fall ye thus before a little wind? By Dante Alighieri

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. By Dante Alighieri

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below. By Dante Alighieri

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. By Dante Alighieri

God is the love that moves the sun and stars. By Dante Alighieri

A mighty flame follows a tiny spark. By Dante Alighieri

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly. By Dante Alighieri

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone. By Dante Alighieri

A backward glance can often lift the heart. By Dante Alighieri

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. By Dante Alighieri

Love insists the loved loves back By Dante Alighieri

Ink to parchment, words to paper, glory to Beatrice. By Dante Alighieri

Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery. By Dante Alighieri

My course is set for an uncharted sea. By Dante Alighieri

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. By Dante Alighieri

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason. By Dante Alighieri

But the stars that marked our starting fall away.We must go deeper into greater pain,for it is not permitted that we stay. By Dante Alighieri

The path to paradise begins in hell. By Dante Alighieri

Until he shall have driven her back to Hell, By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire. By Dante Alighieri

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. By Dante Alighieri

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge ... By Dante Alighieri

There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about. By Dante Alighieri

The poets leave hell and again behold the stars. By Dante Alighieri

And said the Guide, 'One am I who descendsDown with this living man from cliff to cliff,And I intend to show Hell unto him. By Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here. By Dante Alighieri

Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow. By Dante Alighieri

This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind. By Dante Alighieri

Still desiring, we live without hope. By Dante Alighieri

This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue. By Dante Alighieri

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again. By Dante Alighieri

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true. By Dante Alighieri

I understood that to this mode of pain are doomed the sinners of the carnal kind, who o'er their reason let their impulse reign. By Dante Alighieri

The Commedia , it must be remembered, is a vision of the progress of man's soul toward perfection. By Dante Alighieri

What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That? By Dante Alighieri

I have set foot in that region of life where it is not possible to go with any more intention of returning By Dante Alighieri

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender. By Dante Alighieri

A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart,and every single White be seared by wounds.I tell you this. I want it all to hurt. By Dante Alighieri

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery. By Dante Alighieri

Deed done is well begun. By Dante Alighieri

My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path. By Dante Alighieri

The Love that moves the sun and all the other stars. By Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. By Dante Alighieri

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know. By Dante Alighieri

You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left. By Dante Alighieri

Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you... By Dante Alighieri

Its very memory gives a shape to fear. Death could scarce be more bitter than that place! By Dante Alighieri

Neither Creator nor creature ever, Son, " he began, "was destitute of loveNatural or spiritual; and thou knowest it. By Dante Alighieri

In this place piety lives where pity is dead. By Dante Alighieri

Beheld a power whose head was crowned with signs of victory. By Dante Alighieri

And to a place I come where nothing shines. By Dante Alighieri

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing. By Dante Alighieri

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance. By Dante Alighieri

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. By 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 another man's stairs. By Dante Alighieri

Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars. By Dante Alighieri

Three sparkspride, envy, and avaricehave been kindled in all hearts. By Dante Alighieri

He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling. By Dante Alighieri

It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more. By Dante Alighieri

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. By Dante Alighieri

Follow your own star! By Dante Alighieri

I wept not, so to stone within I grew. By Dante Alighieri

I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way. By Dante Alighieri

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

The secret of getting things done is to act! By Dante Alighieri

I saw within Its depth how It conceivesAll things in a single volume bound by Loveof which the universe is the scattered leaves. By Dante Alighieri

No greater grief than to remember daysOf joy, when mis'ry is at hand. By Dante Alighieri

No one thinks of how much blood it costs. By Dante Alighieri

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. By Dante Alighieri

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground By Dante Alighieri

Will cannot be quenched against its will. By Dante Alighieri

Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves By Dante Alighieri

Remember tonight ... for it is the beginning of always By Dante Alighieri

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. By Dante Alighieri

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him. By Dante Alighieri

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. By Dante Alighieri

Love, which insists that love shall mutual be. By Dante Alighieri

He listens well who takes notes. By Dante Alighieri

i did not die, yet nothing of life remained. By Dante Alighieri

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy. By Dante Alighieri

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

He who knows most grieves most for wasted time. By Dante Alighieri

From a little spark may burst a flame. By Dante Alighieri

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. By Dante Alighieri

For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze. By Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrowthan thinking back upon a happy timein misery By Dante Alighieri

So bitter is it, death is little more; By Dante Alighieri

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. By Dante Alighieri

And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I've been with you that in the world your name may still endure. By Dante Alighieri

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

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe. By Dante Alighieri

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. By Dante Alighieri

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. By Dante Alighieri

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. By Dante Alighieri

These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all. By Dante Alighieri

My senses down, when the true By Dante Alighieri

He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves By Dante Alighieri

But in the divine nature Persons three,And in one person the divine and human. By Dante Alighieri

From there we came outside and saw the stars By Dante Alighieri

Infinite goodness has such wide arms. By Dante Alighieri

Abandon every hope, you who enter. By Dante Alighieri

These have no hope that death will overcome.And so degraded is the life they leadall look with envy on all other fates. By Dante Alighieri

Even as he who glories while he gains will, when the time has come to tally loss, lament with every thought and turn despondent, By Dante Alighieri

All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God. By Dante Alighieri

Great fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrha's god for aid - that he may answer. By Dante Alighieri

Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct. By Dante Alighieri

Love can move the Sun and the stars. By Dante Alighieri

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

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

And now I fell as bodies fall,for dead. By Dante Alighieri

The well heeded well heard. By Dante Alighieri

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. By Dante Alighieri

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest. By Dante Alighieri

Everywhere is here and every when is now. By Dante Alighieri

I hope for your sake you've got something inside that big body of yours! By Dante Alighieri

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. By Dante Alighieri

Thy wretchedness weighs upon me, so that it to weep invites me. By Dante Alighieri

I love to doubt as well as know. By Dante Alighieri

He who know most grieves most for wasted time. By Dante Alighieri

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

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. By Dante Alighieri

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life. By Dante Alighieri

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings. By Dante Alighieri

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary By Dante Alighieri

I am the guardian, the shepherd of sins By Dante Alighieri

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

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

I made my own house be my gallows. By Dante Alighieri

That with him were, what time the Love Divine By Dante Alighieri

He is not always at ease who laughs. By Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable. By Dante Alighieri

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. By Dante Alighieri

Faith is the substance of the things we hope for,And evidence of those that are not seen ... By Dante Alighieri

I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath By Dante Alighieri

Less shame a greater fault would palliate. By Dante Alighieri

We were men once, though we've become trees By Dante Alighieri

It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old. By Dante Alighieri

The devil is not as black as he is painted. By Dante Alighieri

Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared? By Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act. By Dante Alighieri

The experience of this sweet life. By Dante Alighieri

how short a time the fire of love endures in womanif frequent sight and touch do not rekindle it. By Dante Alighieri

Lost are we, and are only so far punished,That without hope we live on in desire. By Dante Alighieri

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

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. By Dante Alighieri

I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women. By Dante Alighieri

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow. By Dante Alighieri

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! By Dante Alighieri

A light there is in the beyond which makes the Creator visible to the creature, who only in beholding Him finds peace. By Dante Alighieri

Eternal love made me. By Dante Alighieri

...but nature scants that lights in all it makes, working in much the manner of a painter who knows the true art, but those whose brush hand shakes. By Dante Alighieri

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

If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven By Dante Alighieri

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

And we came forth to contemplate the stars. By Dante Alighieri

Follow your path, and let the people talk. By Dante Alighieri

For he, who sees a need, but waits to be asked, is already set on cruel refusal. By Dante Alighieri

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. By Dante Alighieri

We have no hope and yet we live in longing. By Dante Alighieri

All of nature is God's art. By Dante Alighieri

I know this is a major cultural artifact but it's bad for the community. By Dante Alighieri

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. By Dante Alighieri

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep... By Dante Alighieri

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. By Dante Alighieri

Honor is the greatest poet. By Dante Alighieri

In His will, our peace. By Dante Alighieri

Go right on and listen as thou goest. By Dante Alighieri

Other response, he said, I make thee not,Except the doing; for the modest askingOught to be followed by the deed in silence. By Dante Alighieri

I by not doing, not by doing, lost By Dante Alighieri

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. By Dante Alighieri

He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it. By Dante Alighieri

Through me the way into the suffering city,Through me the way into eternal pain,Through me the way that runs among the lost. By Dante Alighieri

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. By Dante Alighieri

Strange and ironic, it will end the same way. By Dante Alighieri

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

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness. By Dante Alighieri

From a small spark, Great flame has risen. By Dante Alighieri

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil By Dante Alighieri

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars") By Dante Alighieri

I cannot well repeat how there I entered, By Dante Alighieri

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me. By Dante Alighieri

Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle. By Dante Alighieri

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. By Dante Alighieri

Without Hope we live in desire. By Dante Alighieri

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon. By Dante Alighieri

Often a retrospect delights the mind. By Dante Alighieri

I found myself within a forest dark, By Dante Alighieri

You shall leave everything you love. By Dante Alighieri

Wisdom is earned, not given By Dante Alighieri

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide. By Dante Alighieri

How come I never meet any nice girls? By Dante Alighieri

That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit. By Dante Alighieri

Small projects need much more help than great. By Dante Alighieri

Astrology, the noblest of sciences. By Dante Alighieri

Nature is the art of God. By Dante Alighieri

So what brings you to this killing pickle? By Dante Alighieri