Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
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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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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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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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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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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 only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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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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L'esperîenzadi questa dolce vita.
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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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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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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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Capo ha cosa fatta.
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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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They yearn for what they fear for.
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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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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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Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.