Dante Alighieri Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

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

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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

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Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.

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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

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I found myself within a forest dark.

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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

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... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

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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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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon

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e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

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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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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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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

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