Dante Alighieri Quotes

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

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A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

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These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

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That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.

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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

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The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract.

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

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Honor is the greatest poet.

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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From there we came outside and saw the stars

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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

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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.

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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

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

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He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.

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He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon

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