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1 Alighieri Dante Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia by Boccaccio hence Divina Commedia), is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian more..

2 Alighieri Dante:He listens well who takes notes. #Listening

3 Alighieri Dante: Nature is the art of God. #Nature

4 Alighieri Dante: In His will is our peace. #God

5 Alighieri Dante: Abandon all hope, you who enter here! #Hell

6 Alighieri Dante: These have not the hope to die. #Death and Dying

7 Alighieri Dante:If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. #Mystics and Mysticism

8 Alighieri Dante:A great flame follows a little spark. #Spirit and Spirituality

9 Alighieri Dante: The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. #Life and Living

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

11 Alighieri Dante:Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. #Knowledge

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

13 Alighieri Dante: There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. #Memory

14 Alighieri Dante: A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. #Action

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

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

17 Alighieri Dante:Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man. #Greed

18 Alighieri Dante:O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. #Death and Dying

19 Alighieri Dante: Follow your own star! #Individuality

20 Alighieri Dante:Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire. #Greed

21 Alighieri Dante: For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? #Action

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