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You were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Infinite goodness has such wide arms, that it embraces all that turns to it.

Dante Alighieri

{Allegory: Love, which absolves no loved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it does...}

Love, which absolves no loved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it does not leave me even now.

Dante Alighieri

{Allegory: And just as someone who, with laboring breath, has escaped the sea to reach the shore, turns back to gaze at...}

And just as someone who, with laboring breath, has escaped the sea to reach the shore, turns back to gaze at the perilous waters.

Dante Alighieri

Ah, how hard it is to describe this rough and harsh and dense forest, which renews fear in my thoughts!

Dante Alighieri

{Allegory: O imagination, that sometimes steals us so,
from outside things, that we pay no attention,
though someone...}

O imagination, that sometimes steals us so, from outside things, that we pay no attention, though someone might be present who hears a bell or a horn, within you!

Dante Alighieri

{Allegory: And as the starlings are borne on their wings, in the cold season, in a broad and full troop, so does that...}

And as the starlings are borne on their wings, in the cold season, in a broad and full troop, so does that blast bear the evil spirits along.

Dante Alighieri

{Allegory: He had already reached the place where the roar of water falling into the next circle could be heard, similar...}

He had already reached the place where the roar of water falling into the next circle could be heard, similar to the buzzing of beehives.

Dante Alighieri

I saw such a long throng of people, I would not have believed death had undone so many.

Dante Alighieri

Beyond the sphere that widest orbit swings, passes the sigh that leaves my heart below.

Francesco Petrarca

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