14 Quotes by Dante Alighieri about Men

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    Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

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    Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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    You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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    Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

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    Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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    O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

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    Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

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    If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

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