Dante Alighieri Quotes
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My course is set for an uncharted sea.
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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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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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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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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
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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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The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.
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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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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
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Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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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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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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He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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Vedi l'erbette, i fiori e li arbuscelliche qui la terra sol da sé produce.
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
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I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
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Astrology, the noblest of sciences.