Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")
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The path to paradise begins in hell.
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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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The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
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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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Abandon every hope, you who enter.
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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.
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He is not always at ease who laughs.
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Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
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I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.
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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
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Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.
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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.
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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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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.
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Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.
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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
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Still desiring, we live without hope.
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You shall leave everything you love.
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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?