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View Quote The decision of Pope Celestine V to abdicate the Papacy and allow Dante's enemy, Pope Boniface VIII, to gain power.
View Quote The experience of this sweet life.
View Quote The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.
View Quote The night that hides things from us.
View Quote The sword above here smiteth not in hasteNor tardily, howe'er it seem to himWho fearing or desiring waits for it.
View Quote The use of men is like a leafOn bough, which goeth and another cometh.
View Quote Then he turned round unto that bloated lip,⁠And said: "Be silent, thou accursed wolf;⁠Consume within thyself with thine own rage.Not causeless is this journey to the abyss;⁠Thus is it willed on high, where Michael wrought⁠Vengeance upon the proud adultery."
View Quote Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.
View Quote Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.
View Quote These have no longer any hope of death;⁠And this blind life of theirs is so debased,⁠They envious are of every other fate.No fame of them the world permits to be;⁠Misericord and Justice both disdain them.⁠Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.
View Quote This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
View Quote Thou hast my heart so with desire disposed⁠To the adventure, with these words of thine,⁠That to my first intent I have returned.Now go, for one sole will is in us both,⁠Thou Leader, and thou Lord, and Master thou."⁠Thus said I to him; and when he had moved,I entered on the deep and savage way.
View Quote Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another man's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
View Quote Through me the way is to the city dolent;Through me the way is to eternal dole;Through me the way among the people lost.Justice incited my sublime Creator;⁠Created me divine Omnipotence, ⁠The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.Before me there were no created things,⁠Only eterne, and I eternal last."⁠All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
View Quote Time moves and yet we do not notice it.