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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Top 10 Best Quotes
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”
“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”
“The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.”
“Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.”
“I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath”
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