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These have not the hope to die.
Dante (Alighieri)
Death and Dying

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante (Alighieri)
Conscience

In His will is our peace.
Dante (Alighieri)
God

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante (Alighieri)
Memory

Follow your own star!
Dante (Alighieri)
Individuality

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante (Alighieri)
Humankind

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Dante (Alighieri)
Life and Living

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante (Alighieri)
Perfection

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
Dante (Alighieri)
Middle Class

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Dante (Alighieri)
Things and Little Things

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante (Alighieri)
Change

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.
Dante (Alighieri)
Beauty

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Dante (Alighieri)
Action

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Dante (Alighieri)
Cries and Crying

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
Dante (Alighieri)
Hell

Abandon all hope, you who enter here!
Dante (Alighieri)
Hell

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante (Alighieri)
Fame

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante (Alighieri)
Action

Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Dante (Alighieri)
Will and Will Power