“Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse; Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto Per più fiate gli… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slime they speak their piece, end it, and start again: 'Sullen were we in… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“your soul has been assailed by cowardice, which often weighs so heavily on a man-- distracting him from honorable trials-- as phantoms… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
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… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse; Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto Per più fiate gli occhi ci… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
