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Facts about Dante Alighieri
Summary
Dante Alighieri was a famous Poet from Italy, who lived between June 1, 1265 and September 13, 1321. He/she became 56 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable.
Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Dante, under the main topics:
History -
Politics -
Beauty -
Men .
Related authors: John Churton Collins (Critic), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet), John Ciardi (Dramatist)
30 Famous quotes by Dante Alighieri
"He listens well who takes notes"
"From a little spark may burst a flame"
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge"
"Beauty awakens the soul to act"
"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows"
"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"
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark"
"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"
"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction"
"Will cannot be quenched against its will"
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery"
"The secret of getting things done is to act!"
"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise"
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is"
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis"
"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come"
"Small projects need much more help than great"
"Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always"
"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men"
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"No one thinks of how much blood it costs"
"Nature is the art of God"
"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost"
"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought"
"I wept not, so to stone within I grew"
"I love to doubt as well as know"
"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground"
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal"
