Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore e costumato a la sua segnoria
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The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract.
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita,mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,ché la diritta via era smarrita.
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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.
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Io venni in loco d'ogne luce muto,che mugghia come fa mar per tempesta,se da contrari venti è combattuto.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.
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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
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Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona de la mia donna disiosamente... che lo 'ntelletto sovr'esse disvia.
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Follow your own star!
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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
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O superbi Cristian, miseri lassi!Che, della vista della mente infermi,Fidanza avete ne' ritrosi passi;Non v' accorgete voi, che noi siam vermiNati a formar l' angelica farfalla,Che vola alla giustizia senza schermi?Di che l' animo vostro in alto galla,Poi siete quasi entomata in difetto,Sì come verme, in cui formazion falla?
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
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Superbia, invidia e avarizia sonole tre faville c'hanno i cuori accesi.
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Dà oggi a noi la cotidiana manna,sanza la qual per questo aspro disertoa retro va chi più di gir s'affanna.
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This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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Contra miglior voler voler mal pugna; ...
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Amor, ch'al cor gentil ratto s'apprende,prese costui de la bella personache mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.Amor, ch'a nullo amato amar perdona,mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona.
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I love to doubt as well as know.
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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
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Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.