Dante Alighieri Quotes
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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
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The experience of this sweet life.
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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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The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
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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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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things.
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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.
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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
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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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Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
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Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
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He is not always at ease who laughs.
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
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Abandon every hope, you who enter.
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I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.