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Quotes by Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
– Dante Alighieri
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
– Dante Alighieri
Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
– Dante Alighieri
Small projects need much more help than great.
– Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
– Dante Alighieri
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
– Dante Alighieri
The secret of getting things done is to act!
– Dante Alighieri
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
– Dante Alighieri
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
– Dante Alighieri
Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.
– Dante Alighieri
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
– Dante Alighieri
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
– Dante Alighieri
A great flame follows a little spark.
– Dante Alighieri
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
– Dante Alighieri
He listens well who takes notes.
– Dante Alighieri
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
– Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
– Dante Alighieri
The experience of this sweet life.
L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.
– Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
– Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
– Dante Alighieri
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
– Dante Alighieri
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
– Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
– Dante Alighieri
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
– Dante Alighieri