Dante Alighieri Quotes, Power Quotes, Evil Quotes

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

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Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.

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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

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The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

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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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…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

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The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

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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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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

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There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

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