Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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.
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Fecemi la divina potestate.
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As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
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Libertà va cercando, ch'è sì cara,come sa chi per lei vita rifiuta.
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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.
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If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
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Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda.
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Ed ènne dolce così fatto scemo,perché il ben nostro in questo ben s'affina,che quel che vole Iddio, e noi volemo.
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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
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O sol che sani ogne vista turbata,tu mi contenti sì quando tu solvi,che, non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.
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Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate.
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Lo maggior don che Dio per sua larghezzafesse creando, e a la sua bontatepiù conformato, e quel ch'e' più apprezza,fu de la volontà la libertate;di che le creature intelligenti,e tutte e sole, fuore e son dotate.
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He listens well who takes notes.
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Small projects need much more help than great.
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Da quel puntodepende il cielo e tutta la natura.
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Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere brunotoglieva li animai che sono in terrada le fatiche loro.
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Come le pecorelle escon del chiusoa una, a due, a tre, e l'altre stannotimidette atterrando l'occhio e 'l muso;e ciò che fa la prima, e l'altre fanno,addossandosi a lei, s'ella s'arresta,semplici e quete, e lo 'mperché non sanno.
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E 'n la sua volontade è nostra pace:ell'è quel mare al qual tutto si moveciò ch'ella crïa o che natura face.
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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
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Ciascun confusamente un bene apprendenel qual si queti l'animo, e disira;per che di giugner lui ciascun contende.
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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.
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Ché perder tempo a chi più sa più spiace.
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Ogn'erba si conosce per lo seme.