 Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now that, and changes name as it changes sides.
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Category Archives: Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri – Noble conscience
| O noble conscience, upright and refined, how slight a fault inflicts a bitter sting.
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Dante Alighieri – Lying in a featherbed will bring. . .
| Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
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