Dante Alighieri Quotes - Page 2

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• Beauty awakens the soul to act.

  Dante Alighieri

  Beauty, Spiritual, Soul

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

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  Simple, Deep Meaning, Simple Words

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

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Generosity, Thieves

  Dante Alighieri (1879). “The 'De Monarchia' of Dante”

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• Nature is the art of God.

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  Art, Nature, Travel

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• Follow your own star!

  Dante Alighieri

  Being Yourself, Stars, Inspire

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• Love insists the loved loves back

  Dante Alighieri

  Inferno

  Dante Alighieri (2007). “Inferno”, Vintage

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

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  Black, Devil, Divine Comedy

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

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  Heart, Pride, Evil

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

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Pals, Ugly, Ass

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

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  Fire, Burning, Spirit

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hubert Sisson, David H. Higgins (1998). “The Divine Comedy”, p.156, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, New Life

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• Love can move the Sun and the stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Moving, Sun

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• The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

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  Military, Race, Liberty

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• The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

  Dante Alighieri

  Time, Growing Up, Loss

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song III, 78, 1321.

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• They yearn for what they fear for.

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  Inferno

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

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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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• Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

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  Twilight, Men, Soul

  Dante Alighieri (1998). “Inferno”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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

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  Lost, Breaths, Dies

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

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• The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

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  Real, Love Is, Mind

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.294, Vintage

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