Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
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Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.
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At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
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As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
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O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.
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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
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Without hope we live in desire.
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Voi vigilate ne l'etterno die.
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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
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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.
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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.
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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!