Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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In His will, our peace.
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Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
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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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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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These have not the hope to die.
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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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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
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When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
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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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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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Still desiring, we live without hope.
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Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.
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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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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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Abandon every hope, you who enter.
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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.