Dante Alighieri Quotes, Summer Quotes, Flower Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Summer Quotes , Flower Quotes

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Pain Quotes , Happy Times Quotes

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Dream Quotes , Morning Quotes

The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Past Quotes , Punishment Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Moments Quotes , Capacity Quotes

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Dark Quotes , Journey Quotes

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Wings Quotes , Reason Quotes

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Heart Quotes , Glances Quotes

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Christianity Quotes , Creation Quotes

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Men Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Blow Quotes , Idols Quotes

Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Faith Quotes , Taken Quotes

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Path Quotes , Faces Quotes

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Stars Quotes , Moving Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Time Quotes , Sleep Quotes

There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Lying Quotes

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Love Quotes , Punishment Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Littles Quotes , Bitterness Quotes