Quotes 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."

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   

"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
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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   

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

Dante Alighieri on action   

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

Dante Alighieri on action   

"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   

"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 power   

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

Dante Alighieri on science   

"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   

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

Dante Alighieri on misery