Way Quotes by Dante Alighieri

13 Way quotes by Dante Alighieri

Dante’s voice still echoes through the ages, and these 13 lines capture his take on journeys—both literal and spiritual. It’s a concise glimpse that can spark deeper reflection on any road you’re walking.

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I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

Dante Alighieri

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If you give people light, they will find their own way.

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Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

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

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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to…

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

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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down…

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

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I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into…

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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs…

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This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with…

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"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more…

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I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never…

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Love can move the Sun and the stars.

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

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“On march the banners of the King of Hell.”

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

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Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

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