Dante Alighieri Quotes

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

I love to doubt as well as know.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

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

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

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

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

The secret of getting things done is to act!

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.

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

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

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

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

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.

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

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

Follow your own star!

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

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

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

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