Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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Often a retrospect delights the mind.
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Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
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Ché tutto l'oro ch'è sotto la lunae che già fu, di quest'anime stanchepoterebbe farne posare una.
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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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A backward glance can often lift the heart.
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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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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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They yearn for what they fear for.
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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.
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Vedi l'erbette, i fiori e li arbuscelliche qui la terra sol da sé produce.
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How come I never meet any nice girls?
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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.
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Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
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My course is set for an uncharted sea.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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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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He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
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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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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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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.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.