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

Dante Alighieri on Fame
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"In His will is our peace."

Dante Alighieri on God
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"There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind."

Dante Alighieri on Hell
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"Abandon all hope, you who enter here!"

Dante Alighieri on Hell
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"Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

Dante Alighieri on Humankind
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"Follow your own star!"

Dante Alighieri on Individuality
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"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."

Dante Alighieri on Life and Living
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri on Memory
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"This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise."

Dante Alighieri on Middle Class
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"Nature is the art of God."

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

Dante Alighieri on Perfection
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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

Dante Alighieri on Action
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"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."

Dante Alighieri on Action
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal."

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

Dante Alighieri on Change
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"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."

Dante Alighieri on Things and Little Things
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"Will cannot be quenched against its will."

Dante Alighieri on Will and Will Power
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"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"

Dante Alighieri on Conscience
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"I wept not, so to stone within I grew."

Dante Alighieri on Cries and Crying
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"These have not the hope to die."

Dante Alighieri on Death and Dying
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