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The Divine Comedy quotes

8 quotes from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, / ché la diritta via era smarrita.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno I.1–3, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.

The inscription over the gate of hell · Dante Alighieri, Inferno III.9, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
There is no greater sorrow / Than to be mindful of the happy time / In misery.

Nessun maggior dolore / che ricordarsi del tempo felice / ne la miseria.

Francesca da Rimini (dialogue) · Dante Alighieri, Inferno V.121–123, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
Then hunger did what sorrow could not do.

Poscia, più che ’l dolor, poté ’l digiuno.

Count Ugolino (dialogue) · Dante Alighieri, Inferno XXXIII.75, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno XXXIV.139, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
It is the light eternal of Sigier, / Who, reading lectures in the Street of Straw, / Did syllogize invidious verities.

essa è la luce etterna di Sigieri, / che, leggendo nel Vico de li Strami, / silogizzò invidïosi veri.

Thomas Aquinas (dialogue) · Dante Alighieri, Paradiso X.136–138, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
Thou shalt have proof how savoureth of salt / The bread of others, and how hard a road / The going down and up another’s stairs.

Tu proverai sì come sa di sale / lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle / lo scendere e ’l salir per l’altrui scale.

Cacciaguida (dialogue) · Dante Alighieri, Paradiso XVII.58–60, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.

l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso XXXIII.145, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)

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