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"From now on you will have to cast off sloth in this way," said my master, "for one does not gain fame sitting on-down cushions, or while under coverlets; and whoever consumes his life without fame leaves a mark of himself on earth like smoke in the air or foam in water. And therefore stand up; conquer your panting with the spirit that conquers in every battle, if it does not let the heavy body crush it down."
About Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (c. 30 May 1265 – 13 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
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Additional quotes by Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!
"[Sonetto XVIII]
"Primo cominciamento"
Era venuta ne la mente mia
la gentil donna che per suo valore
fu posta da l’altissimo signore
nel ciel de l’umiltate, ov’è Maria.
[Vita Nuova XXXIV 7]
"Secondo cominciamento"
Era venuta ne la mente mia
quella donna gentil che piange Amore,
entro ’n quel punto che lo suo valore
vi trasse a riguardar quel ch’eo facia.
Amor, che ne la mente la sentia,
s’era svegliato nel destrutto core,
e diceva a’ sospiri: "Andate fore";
per che ciascun dolente si partia.
Piangendo uscivan for de lo mio petto
con una voce che sovente mena
le lagrime dogliose a li occhi tristi.
Ma quei che n’uscian for com maggior pena,
venian dicendo: "Oi nobile intelletto,
oggi fa l’anno che nel ciel salisti"."