Dante Alighieri Quotes, Motto Quotes

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.

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No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

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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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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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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

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Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

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

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Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

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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’.

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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

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If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

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Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

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I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.

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If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

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Without hope we live in desire.

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We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

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