There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.
Tags: nostalgia à-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu dante italian-medieval-poetry
No hay mayor dolor en el infortunio que recordar el tiempo feliz.
Dante AlighieriNo fuisteis criados para vivir como bestias
sino para seguir en pos de la virtud y la sabiduría.
Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.
Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,
Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..."
"Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,
Seized him with my beautiful form
That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.
Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,
took me so strongly with delight in him
That, as you see, it still abandons me not...
Tags: love poetry italian italy medieval-literature
In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.
Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
Dante AlighieriTags: wisdom time aging impatience
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.
Dante AlighieriAll hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante AlighieriTags: hell latin motto gates-of-hell
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante AlighieriTags: attributed-no-source morality afterlife hell neutrality
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