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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321There 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, as sand eddies in a whirlpool. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Love2 quotes
Love and the gracious heart are a single thing…
One can no more be without the other
Than the reasoning mind without its reason. — Dante Alighieri · 1294Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri · 1294Beginning of a journey1 quote
My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Being in love1 quote
In that part of the book of my memory, before which very little is written, there is a heading that reads "Here begins a new life". — Dante Alighieri · 1294Color1 quote
With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Conscience1 quote
O pure and noble conscience, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! — Dante Alighieri · 1321Courage1 quote
Here one must leave behind all hesitation;
here every cowardice must meet its death. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Destiny1 quote
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Fame1 quote
Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Fickleness of fame1 quote
Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Free will1 quote
The greatest gift which God in His bounty
Bestowed in creating,
And the most conformed to His own goodness
And that which He most prizes, was the freedom of the will,
With which the creatures that have intelligence,
They all and they alone, were and are endowed. — Dante Alighieri · 1321God's will1 quote
In His will is our peace. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Grace1 quote
Love and the gracious heart are a single thing…
One can no more be without the other
Than the reasoning mind without its reason. — Dante Alighieri · 1294Hard times1 quote
There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Haste1 quote
Haste denies all acts their dignity. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Hope1 quote
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Hopelessness and despair1 quote
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Human potential1 quote
O human race, born to fly upward,
Wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? — Dante Alighieri · 1321Kindness1 quote
Love and the gracious heart are a single thing…
One can no more be without the other
Than the reasoning mind without its reason. — Dante Alighieri · 1294Love at first sight1 quote
In that part of the book of my memory, before which very little is written, there is a heading that reads "Here begins a new life". — Dante Alighieri · 1294Paying attention1 quote
He listens well who takes notes. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Power of love1 quote
Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri · 1294Purpose of life1 quote
Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Reputation1 quote
The reputation which the world bestows
is like the wind, that shifts now here now there,
its name changed with the quarter whence it blows. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Stars1 quote
Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Suffering1 quote
There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Sunrise1 quote
With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Sunset1 quote
With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Taking one's time1 quote
Haste denies all acts their dignity. — Dante Alighieri · 1321