Dante Alighieri -Quotes.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. 

~ Dante Alighieri

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. 

~ Dante Alighieri

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. 

~ Dante Alighieri

It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays. 

~ Dante Alighieri

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. 

~ Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! 

~ Dante Alighieri

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. 

~ Dante Alighieri

No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act. 

~ Dante Alighieri

He listens well who takes notes. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Follow your own star! 

~ Dante Alighieri

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. 

~ Dante Alighieri

From a little spark may burst a flame. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. 

~ Dante Alighieri

I love to doubt as well as know. 

~ Dante Alighieri

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. 

~ Dante Alighieri

I wept not, so to stone within I grew. 

~ Dante Alighieri

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. 

~ Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. 

~ Dante Alighieri  

 

Small projects need much more help than great. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Nature is the art of God. 

~ Dante Alighieri

No one thinks of how much blood it costs. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. 

~ Dante Alighieri

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! 

~ Dante Alighieri

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. 

~ Dante Alighieri

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. 

~ Dante Alighieri

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. 

~ Dante Alighieri

The secret of getting things done is to act! 

~ Dante Alighieri

Will cannot be quenched against its will. 

~ Dante Alighieri

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence. 

~ Dante Alighieri

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. 

~ Dante Alighieri

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. 

~ Dante Alighieri

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? 

~ Dante Alighieri

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind. 

~ Dante Alighieri

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen? 

~ Dante Alighieri

We climbed up…until I finally saw through a round opening the beauteous things which Heaven holds. And there we came out to see, once more, the stars. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act. 

~ Dante Alighieri

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. 

~ Dante Alighieri

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. 

~ Dante Alighieri

 

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. 

~ Dante Alighieri