Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven.
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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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Honor is the greatest poet.
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That with him were, what time the Love Divine.
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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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The path to paradise begins in hell.
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I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.
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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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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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The experience of this sweet life.
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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.
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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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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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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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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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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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I made my own house be my gallows.
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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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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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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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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.