Quotes from Dante Alighieri
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Follow your own star!
From a little spark may burst a flame.
He listens well who takes notes.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
I love to doubt as well as know.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Nature is the art of God.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
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