A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
– Dante Alighieri
A great flame follows a little spark.
– Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
– Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
– Dante Alighieri
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.
– Dante Alighieri
As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
– Dante Alighieri
As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind — Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
– Dante Alighieri
Avarice, envy, pride; three fatal sparks, have set on fire the souls of man.
– Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
– Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
– Dante Alighieri
But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
– Dante Alighieri
Consider that this day ne’er dawns again.
– Dante Alighieri
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
– Dante Alighieri
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
– Dante Alighieri
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
– Dante Alighieri
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
– Dante Alighieri
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
– Dante Alighieri
He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who for it renounces life.
– Dante Alighieri
He listens well who takes notes.
– Dante Alighieri
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
– Dante Alighieri
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
– Dante Alighieri
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
– Dante Alighieri
Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.
– Dante Alighieri
How brief a blaze a woman’s love will yield If not relit by frequent touch and sight.
– Dante Alighieri
I love to doubt as well as know.
– Dante Alighieri
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
– Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.
– Dante Alighieri
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.
– Dante Alighieri
It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
– Dante Alighieri
Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
– Dante Alighieri
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
– Dante Alighieri
Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
– Dante Alighieri
Love hath so long possessed me for his own and made his lordship so familiar.
– Dante Alighieri
Love insists the loved loves back.
– Dante Alighieri
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
– Dante Alighieri
Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
– Dante Alighieri
Nature is the art of God.
– Dante Alighieri
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.
– Dante Alighieri
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
– Dante Alighieri
One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.
– Dante Alighieri
Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.
– Dante Alighieri
Remember tonight … for it is the beginning of always.
– Dante Alighieri
Small projects need much more help than great.
– Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
– Dante Alighieri
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
– Dante Alighieri
The devil is not as black as he is painted.
– Dante Alighieri
The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.
– Dante Alighieri
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
– Dante Alighieri
The more a thing is perfect, the more if feels pleasure and pain.
– Dante Alighieri
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
– Dante Alighieri
Their eyes seem’d rings from whence the gems were gone.
– Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
– Dante Alighieri
They yearn for what they fear for.
– Dante Alighieri
To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
– Dante Alighieri
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
– Dante Alighieri
When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
– Dante Alighieri
Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.
– Dante Alighieri