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:: 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet |
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Perfection]
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Memory]
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This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Middle Class]
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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) - [Fame]
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Hell]
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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Humankind]
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Conscience]
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Action]
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Action]
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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Beauty]
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
~ Dante (Alighieri) - [Change]
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