Dante Alighieri Quotes

All of nature is God's art.

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

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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

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

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Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

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That with him were, what time the Love Divine

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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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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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

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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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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

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Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

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Abandon every hope, you who enter.

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My course is set for an uncharted sea.

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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

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