Dante Alighieri Quotes

They yearn for what they fear for.

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You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.

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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

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Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

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Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

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Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

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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 man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

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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.

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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

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

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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

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