Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.
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Abandon every hope, you who enter.
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If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven.
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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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The experience of this sweet life.
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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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That with him were, what time the Love Divine.
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Honor is the greatest poet.
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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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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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E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")
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All of nature is God's art.
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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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I made my own house be my gallows.
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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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Deed done is well begun.
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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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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
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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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The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
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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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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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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.