Dante Alighieri Quotes

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

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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.

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

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Still desiring, we live without hope.

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

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My course is set for an uncharted sea.

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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

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If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

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We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

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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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He is not always at ease who laughs.

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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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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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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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