Quotes by Dante Alighieri

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Durante degli Alighieri is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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The experience of this sweet life.

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

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And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.

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For certain he hath seen all perfectness For certain he hath seen all perfectness. Who among other ladies hath seen mine: They that go with her humbly should combine To thank their God for such peculiar grace. So perfect is the beauty of her face Tha...

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

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The path to paradise begins in hell.

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And he began, "What chance or destiny has brought you here before your final day? And who is he who leads your pilgrimage?" "Up there in life beneath the quiet stars I lost my way," I answered, "in a valley, before I'd reached the fullness of my age....

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

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

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There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.

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Within her presence, I had once been used to feeling—trembling—wonder, dissolution; but that was long ago. Still, though my soul, now she was veiled, could not see her directly, by way of hidden force that she could move, I felt the mighty power ...

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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

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Author Bio

  • NameDante Alighieri
  • DescriptionItalian poet
  • AliasesDante
  • Born1265
  • DiedSeptember 14, 1321
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionPoet; Politician; Philosopher; Political Theorist; Writer