82 Famous Quotes by Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet and writer who is best known for his epic poem "The Divine Comedy." The work is a journey through the afterlife, and it explores themes of morality, faith, and redemption. Dante's poetry is marked by a sense of beauty and wonder, and his work has had a profound influence on the development of Italian literature and culture. His legacy continues to inspire readers and artists around the world. (Dante Alighieri Biography).
Dante Alighieri Famous Quotes
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. (Meaning)
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. (Meaning)
Beauty awakens the soul to act. (Meaning)
Follow your own star! (Meaning)
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. (Meaning)
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. (Meaning)
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. (Meaning)
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. (Meaning)
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. (Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. (Meaning)
I love to doubt as well as know. (Meaning)
He listens well who takes notes. (Meaning)
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. (Meaning)
If you give people light, they will find their own way. (Meaning)
The path to paradise begins in hell. (Meaning)
There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you. (Meaning)
Love insists the loved loves back (Meaning)
Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words (Meaning)
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? (Meaning)
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. (Meaning)
I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath (Meaning)
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. (Meaning)
He who know most grieves most for wasted time. (Meaning)
They yearn for what they fear for. (Meaning)
From a little spark may burst a flame. (Meaning)
I found myself within a forest dark. (Meaning)
Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow. (Meaning)
And we came forth to contemplate the stars. (Meaning)
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. (Meaning)
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven. (Meaning)
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. (Meaning)
At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost. (Meaning)
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. (Meaning)
My course is set for an uncharted sea. (Meaning)
Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle. (Meaning)
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. (Meaning)
Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire. (Meaning)
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame. (Meaning)
From there we came outside and saw the stars (Meaning)
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. (Meaning)
As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. (Meaning)
Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil (Meaning)
I made my own house be my gallows. (Meaning)
All hope abandon, ye who enter here! (Meaning)
Will cannot be quenched against its will. (Meaning)
We have no hope and yet we live in longing. (Meaning)
He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. (Meaning)
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. (Meaning)
Midway upon the journey of our life (Meaning)
That with him were, what time the Love Divine (Meaning)
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Follow your own star!
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Nature is the art of God.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
From a little spark may burst a flame.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
I love to doubt as well as know.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
He listens well who takes notes.
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Small projects need much more help than great.
― Dante Alighieri Quotes
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