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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
Dante Alighieri -
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri
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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing.
Dante Alighieri -
Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.
Dante Alighieri -
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
Dante Alighieri -
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
Dante Alighieri -
Eternal love made me.
Dante Alighieri -
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
Dante Alighieri
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Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
Dante Alighieri -
As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
Dante Alighieri -
There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
Dante Alighieri -
Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
Dante Alighieri -
Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
Dante Alighieri -
He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
Dante Alighieri
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If you give people light, they will find their own way.
Dante Alighieri -
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.
Dante Alighieri -
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.
Dante Alighieri -
Genus vero philosophie, sub quo hic in toto et parte proceditur, est morale negotium, sive ethica; quia non ad speculandum, sed ad opus inventum est totum et pars.
Dante Alighieri -
Without hope we live in desire.
Dante Alighieri -
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.
Dante Alighieri
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O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.
Dante Alighieri -
Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
Dante Alighieri -
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.
Dante Alighieri -
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
Dante Alighieri