Dante Alighieri Quotes, Language Quotes, Muse Quotes

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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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

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

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

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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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The path to paradise begins in hell.

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

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Follow your path, and let the people talk.

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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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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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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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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

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

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Nature is the art of God.

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