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Men Quotes by Dante Alighieri
- Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
- Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
- You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
- The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
- Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
- My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In…
- A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
- In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
- O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
- No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on…
- I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
- 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…
- There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
- The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces…
- The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe…
- Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet…
- Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false…
- If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
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