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Quotes by Dante Alighieri, Paradiso"Love, that moves the sun and the other stars"
"Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain..."
"Behave like men, and not like witless sheep..."
"And what will bow your shoulders downwill be the vicious and worthless company with whom you will fall into this abyss."
"If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still."And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens."
"Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow."
"God's greatest gift to manIn all the bounty He was moved to makeThroughout creation-the one gift the mostClose to his goodness and the one He callsMost precious-is free will."