“Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.”
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Famous Dante Alighieri Quotes
Source: The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic
“The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.”
“A backward glance can often lift the heart.”
Source: Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation
Source: The Paradiso
“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.”
“Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.”
Source: Dante's Divina commedia, tr. in the metre and triple rhyme of the original, with notes, by mrs. Ramsay
Source: The divine comedy
“Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?”
Source: Dante
Source: Dante