Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.
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The glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.
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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon.
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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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They yearn for what they fear for.
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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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The purpose of the whole the Comedy and of this portion the Paradiso is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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L'esperîenzadi questa dolce vita.
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Lo pianto stesso lì pianger non lascia,e 'l duol che truova in su li occhi rintoppo,si volge in entro a far crescer l'ambascia.
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
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Non isperate mai veder lo cielo:i' vegno per menarvi a l'altra rivane le tenebre etterne, in caldo e 'n gelo.
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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
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Che l'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,Segue, come il Maestro fa il discente,Sì che vostr'arte a Dio quasi è nipote.
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Ché cima di giudicio non s'avvallaperché foco d'amor compia in un puntociò che de' sodisfar chi qui s'astalla.
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.
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…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.
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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.