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What is it that had caught your interest so and makes you lag behind?' My master [Virgil] asked, 'What do you care of they are whispering? Keep up wi… - Dante Alighieri
" "What is it that had caught your interest so and makes you lag behind?' My master [Virgil] asked, 'What do you care of they are whispering? Keep up with mr and let those people talk! Be like a solid tower, whose brave height remains unmoved by 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 it's strength.
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About Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (c. 30 May 1265 – 13 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
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Additional quotes by Dante Alighieri
[Sonetto XVII]
Venite a intender li sospiri miei,
oi cor gentil, ché pietà ’l disia:
li quai disconsolati vanno via,
e s’e’ non fosser, di dolor morrei;
però che li occhi mi sarebber rei,
molte fiate più ch’io non vorria,
lasso!, di pianger sì la donna mia,
che sfogasser lo cor, piangendo lei.
Voi udirete lor chiamar sovente
la mia donna gentil, che si n’è gita
al secol degno de la sua vertute;
e dispregiar talora questa vita
in persona de l’anima dolente
abbandonata de la sua salute.
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