Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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.
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
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A backward glance can often lift the heart.
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Often a retrospect delights the mind.
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Non è il mondan romore altro ch'un fiatodi vento, ch'or vien quinci e or vien quindi,e muta nome perché muta lato.
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The devil is not as black as he is painted.
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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.
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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.
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Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa...e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osacom'alma razional sanza ragione.
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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.
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Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
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Capo ha cosa fatta.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
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Se orazïone in prima non m'aitache surga sù di cuor che in grazia viva;l'altra che val, che 'n ciel non è udita?
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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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Incontanente intesi e certo fuiche questa era la setta d'i cattivia Dio spiacenti e a' nemici sui.
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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.