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Famous Dante Alighieri Quotes
“Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.”
“Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?”
Source: Dante
“If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.”
“A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.”
Source: Dante
“O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.”
Source: Works of the British Poets: The vision of Dante Alighieri, tr. by H.F. Cary
Source: The Purgatorio
Source: Dante
“Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.”
Source: Dante
“He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.”
Source: Dante
“Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.”
Source: Poems & translations, 1850-1870: together with the prose story 'Hand and soul'
“Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.”
Source: Dante
Source: The divine comedy
“The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.”
Source: The inferno