Dante Alighieri Quotes

• From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

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• In His will is our peace.

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• There shall you see the pride which causes thirst, which makes the Scots and the English mad, so that they cannot remain within their boundaries.

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• Thence we came forth to see the stars again.

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• There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.

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• In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood where the straight path was lost.

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• The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

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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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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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• A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

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• Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

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• Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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• Follow your own star!

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• He listens well who takes notes.

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• I love to doubt as well as know.

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• I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

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

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• Small projects need much more help than great.

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

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• The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

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Dante Alighieri (41)

Birth:	1265
Death:	1321
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Politician, Theorist

About

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy. He was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. He is considered the Father of Italian language and is best known for his epic poem The Divine Comedy, in which he chronicles a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. He has appeared in various comic books over the years.

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