15 sayings with source references.
Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now that, and changes name as it changes sides.Dante Alighieri · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 158
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The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.Dante Alighieri · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 48
Read the saying and check its sourcesAmor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdonaLove, that exempts no one beloved from loving,
Translation in the cited editionDante Alighieri · Inferno
Read the saying and check its sourcesPoca favilla gran fiamma secondaA little spark is followed by great flame;
Translation in the cited editionDante Alighieri · Paradiso
Read the saying and check its sourcesnon ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passaLet us not speak of them, but look, and pass.”
Translation in the cited editionDante Alighieri · Inferno
Read the saying and check its sourceslibertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara, come sa chi per lei vita rifiuta.He seeketh Liberty, which is so dear, As knoweth he who life for her refuses.
Translation in the cited editionDante Alighieri · Purgatorio
Read the saying and check its sourcesConsiderate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes, But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.’
Translation in the cited editionDante Alighieri · Inferno
Read the saying and check its sourcesl’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
Translation in the cited editionDante Alighieri · Paradiso
Read the saying and check its sources[...] nulla cosa per legame musaico armonizzata si può de la sua loquela in altra transmutare sanza rompere tutta sua dolcezza e armonia.[...] nothing that has been harmonized by a mosaic bond can be transmuted from its discourse into another without breaking all its sweetness and harmony.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorDante Alighieri · Convivio / Citazioni
Read the saying and check its sourcesIngégnati, se puoi, d'esser palese.Strive, if you can, to be clear.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorDante Alighieri · Vita nuova / Citazioni
Read the saying and check its sources[...] la moralitade è bellezza de la filosofia.[...] morality is the beauty of philosophy.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorDante Alighieri · Convivio / Citazioni
Read the saying and check its sourcesConviensi adunque essere prudente, cioè savio: e a ciò essere si richiede buona memoria de le vedute cose, buona conoscenza de le presenti e buona provedenza de le future.It is therefore necessary to be prudent, that is, wise: and to be so requires a good memory of things past, a good knowledge of things present, and good foresight for things to come.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorDante Alighieri · Convivio / Citazioni
Read the saying and check its sources[...] Filosofia non è altro che amistanza a sapienza.[...] Philosophy is nothing other than friendship with wisdom.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorDante Alighieri · Convivio / Citazioni
Read the saying and check its sourcesNullo sensibile in tutto lo mondo è più degno di farsi essemplo di Dio che 'l sole.No sensible thing in all the world is more worthy of being an example of God than the sun.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorDante Alighieri · Convivio / Citazioni
Read the saying and check its sources[...] non dee l'uomo, per maggiore amico, dimenticare li servigi ricevuti dal minore.[...] a man, even as a greater friend, ought not to forget the services received from the lesser.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorDante Alighieri · Convivio / Citazioni
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