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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Intellectual
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
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Florence
Tuscany
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Durante degli Alighieri
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
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Love insists the loved loves back
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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
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O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate and God's will and ours are one.
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Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
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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 mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
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e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle (and thence we came forth to see again the stars)
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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
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Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
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He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
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