Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse; Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto Per più fiate gli occhi ci… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
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