Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
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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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The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.
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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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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
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The well heeded well heard.
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So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
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The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.
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In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
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You shall leave everything you love.
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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
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That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.