Dante Alighieri Quotes, Spring Quotes, Roots Quotes

Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

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

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Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.

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We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

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The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

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

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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

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Often a retrospect delights the mind.

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

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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

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

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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

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

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

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

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

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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

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