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Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher, best known for his epic poem "The Divine Comedy." His work laid the foundation for modern Italian language and literature. He is recognized as one of the greatest literary figures of the Middle Ages. Here are 171 of his quotes:

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain. (Dante Alighieri)

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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From there we came outside and saw the stars.

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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair.

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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

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I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

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Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.

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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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Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe. (Dante Alighieri)

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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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

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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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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil.

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Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

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These have not the hope to die.

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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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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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That with him were, what time the Love Divine.

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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary. (Dante Alighieri)

Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.

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Not only thy benignity gives succour To him who asketh it, but oftentimes Forerunneth of its own accord the asking.

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To a greater power and to a better nature you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world goes astray, in you is the cause, in you let it be sought.

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Do you not know that we are worms and born To form the angelic butterfly that soars, Without defenses, to confront His judgment?

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Dante Alighieri

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Occupation: Italian Poet
Born: May 23, 1265
Died: September 5, 1321
Quotes count: 171
Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri

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