Dante Alighieri
poet, writer, prose writer, politician, philosopher, political theorist, intellectual, linguist
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All Quotes by Dante Alighieri
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”
“Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende”
“From a little spark may burst a flame.”
“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.”
“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
“From a little spark may burst a flame.”
“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.”
“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.”
“No one thinks of how much blood it costs.”
“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!”
“The secret of getting things done is to act!”
“Follow your own star!”
“He listens well who takes notes.”
“I love to doubt as well as know.”
“The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.”
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”
“Small projects need much more help than great.”
“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”
“Will cannot be quenched against its will.”
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”
“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
“Nature is the art of God.”
“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.”
“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.”
“Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”
“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”
“If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”
“The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.”
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”
“I wept not, so to stone within I grew.”
“At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.”
“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.”
“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.”
“Nature is the art of God.”
“Those ancients who in poetry presented”
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
“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.”
“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”
“Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende”
“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground”
“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.”