Dante Alighieri Quotes
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
Alighieri, Dante. Monarchia. Translated by Prue Shaw, Cambridge University Press, 1995, Book I, ch. 13.
This was typical of Bloomberg’s candor and honesty. He was willing to admit his own use of marijuana while at the same time supporting the laws that made marijuana illegal.
Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante (/ˈdɑːnteɪ, ˈdænteɪ, ˈdænti/, also US: /ˈdɑːnti/; c. 1265 – 1321), 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 the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
