Dante Alighieri Quotes

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The path to paradise begins in hell.

Dante Alighieri

Paradise, Path, Hell

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Everywhere is here and every when is now.

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Time

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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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Follow your path, and let the people talk.

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People, Path

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

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Baby, Stars, Children

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

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Love, Romantic, Clock Is Ticking

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

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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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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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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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From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

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Flames, Sparks, Risen

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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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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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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.

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Freedom, Choices, Mind

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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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Without hope we live in desire.

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Desire, Without Hope

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

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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.

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Kindness, Waiting, Needs

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