Dante Alighieri Quotes


"I love to doubt as well as know."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Love, Doubt)

"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Conscience)

"No one thinks of how much blood it costs."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Blood)

"Nature is the art of God."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Art, Nature, God)

"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Life, Journey, Wood)

"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Cause, Present, World)

"I wept not, so to stone within I grew."
- Dante Alighieri
"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Men, Envy, Fire, Pride)

"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Eyes, Heaven)

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Beauty, Fire)

"He listens well who takes notes."
- Dante Alighieri
"From a little spark may burst a flame."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: May)

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Act)

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Hope)

"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."
- Dante Alighieri
"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows."
- Dante Alighieri
"Follow your own star!"
- Dante Alighieri
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Knowledge, Virtue)

"Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Beginning)

"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Blame, Praise)

"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Direction, Fame, Name, Now, Wind)

"Will cannot be quenched against its will."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Will)

"The secret of getting things done is to act!"
- Dante Alighieri
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Treatment)

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Crisis, Hell, Neutrality)

"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Change, Men)

"Small projects need much more help than great."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Help, Projects)

"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Man, Stairs, Taste)

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Happiness, Misery, Sorrow)