Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
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Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
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O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.
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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
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Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
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I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
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If you give people light, they will find their own way.
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Go right on and listen as thou goest.
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A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.
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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
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Follow your path, and let the people talk.
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
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He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts... Beyond the range of human intellect.