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Dante Alighieri

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Dante Alighieri

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge
Dante Alighieri

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence
Dante Alighieri

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
Dante Alighieri

I wept not, so to stone within I grew
Dante Alighieri

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.
Dante Alighieri

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

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge
Dante Alighieri

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, but give them truth to build on.
Dante Alighieri

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Dante Alighieri

From a little spark may burst a flame.
Dante Alighieri

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Dante Alighieri

Still desiring, we live without hope.
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

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
Dante Alighieri

Follow your own star!
Dante Alighieri

Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery
Dante Alighieri

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri

Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
Dante Alighieri

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
Dante Alighieri

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

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us
Dante Alighieri

Reason, thou see'st, hath all too short a wing
Dante Alighieri

It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays
Dante Alighieri




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