Dante Alighieri Quotes, Flames Quotes, Depth Quotes

If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

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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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O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

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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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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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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

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But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

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From there we came outside and saw the stars

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Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

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They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.

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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

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

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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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If you give people light, they will find their own way.

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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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