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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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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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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
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I found myself within a forest dark.
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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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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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
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I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
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Deed done is well begun.
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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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