Dante Alighieri

“Among themselves all things Have order; and from hence the form, which makes The universe resemble God.”

— Dante Alighieri

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast…

— Dante Alighieri

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from…

— Dante Alighieri

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty,…

— Dante Alighieri

Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

— Dante Alighieri

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

— Dante Alighieri

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

— Dante Alighieri

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays…

— 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

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

— Dante Alighieri

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with…

— Dante Alighieri

“So many times a man's thoughts will waver, That it turns him back from honored paths, As false sight turns a beast,…

— Dante Alighieri

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

— Dante Alighieri

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

— 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…

— Dante Alighieri

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere…

— Dante Alighieri

You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left.

— Dante Alighieri

Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and…

— Dante Alighieri

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

— Dante Alighieri

My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and…

— Dante Alighieri

“And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I've been with you that in the…

— Dante Alighieri

“You did as one who, walking by night, Carries the light behind him, where it does him no good, But is of…

— Dante Alighieri

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

— Dante Alighieri

“Come, quando i vapori umidi e spessi A diradar cominciansi, la spera Del sol debilemente entra per essi…”

— 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

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

— Dante Alighieri

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

— Dante Alighieri

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path…

— Dante Alighieri

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.

— Dante Alighieri

“Await no further word or sign from me: your will is free, erect, and whole—to act against that will would be to…

— Dante Alighieri

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such…

— Dante Alighieri

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its…

— Dante Alighieri

When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze…

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings…

— Dante Alighieri

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their…

— Dante Alighieri

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

— Dante Alighieri

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

— Dante Alighieri

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

— 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