Dante Alighieri, probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante, was an Italian poet. Profoundly inspirational Dante Alighieri quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Famous Dante Alighieri Quotes
Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk. Dante Alighieri
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. Dante Alighieri
The path to paradise begins in hell. Dante Alighieri
My course is set for an uncharted sea. Dante Alighieri
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey. Dante Alighieri
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Dante Alighieri
Everywhere is here and every when is now. Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable. Dante Alighieri
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise. Dante Alighieri
The path to paradise begins in hell. Dante Alighieri
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love and, mirror like each soul reflects the other. Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri
Remember tonight for it is the beginning of always. 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
There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you. Dante Alighieri
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. Dante Alighieri
Follow your path, and let the people talk. Dante Alighieri
The devil is not as black as he is painted. Dante Alighieri
If you give people light, they will find their own way. Dante Alighieri
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. Dante Alighieri
Consider your origins you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. 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
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
There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness. Dante Alighieri
Three things remain with us from paradise stars, flowers and children. Dante Alighieri
Love insists the loved loves back. Dante Alighieri
The secret of getting things done is to act! Dante Alighieri
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? Dante Alighieri
Often a retrospect delights the mind. Dante Alighieri
Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri
If your world isn’t right, the cause is in you. Dante Alighieri
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. Dante Alighieri
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. 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
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
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. Dante Alighieri
Love, that moves the sun and the other stars. Dante Alighieri
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. Dante Alighieri
And we came forth to contemplate the stars. Dante Alighiere
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. Dante Alighieri
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people. Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri
From a little spark may burst a flame. Dante Alighieri
Nature is the art of God. Dante Alighieri
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. Dante Alighieri
Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Dante Alighieri
So may heaven’s grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. 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
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly. Dante Alighieri
Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words. Dante Alighieri
The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other. Dante Alighieri
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. Dante Alighieri
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds. Dante Alighieri
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. Dante Alighieri
The devil is not as black as he is painted. Dante Alighieri
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. Dante Alighieri
Nature is the art of God. Dante Alighieri
He woke her then, and trembling and obedient, she ate that burning heart out of his hand. Weeping, I saw him then depart from me. Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her? Find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight, and ache for him? Dante Alighieri
From a small spark, Great flame has risen. 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
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear! Dante Alighieri
Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self love deceive him. Dante Alighieri
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. Dante Alighieri
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. Dante Alighieri
The Love that moves the sun and the other stars. Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri
He is, most of all, l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle. Dante Alighieri
Without hope we live in desire. Dante Alighieri
Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars. Dante Alighieri
Follow your own star! Dante Alighieri
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you. Dante Alighieri
Pride, envy, avarice these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Dante Alighieri
The poets leave hell and again behold the stars. Dante Alighieri
The mind which is created quick to love is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object and unfolds it within you so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you. 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
O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge. 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
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? Dante Alighieri
As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. Dante Alighieri
Eternal love made me. Dante Alighieri
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. Dante Alighieri
Love can move the Sun and the stars. Dante Alighieri
I found myself within a forest dark. Dante Alighieri
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. Dante Alighieri
Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Dante Alighieri
He listens well who takes notes. Dante Alighieri
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair. Dante Alighieri
Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing. Dante Alighieri
My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path. Dante Alighieri
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. Dante Alighieri
Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery. Dante Alighieri
Love insists the loved loves back. Dante Alighieri
For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze. Dante Alighieri
I found myself within a forest dark. Dante Alighieri
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more. Dante Alighieri
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. Dante Alighieri
In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him. Dante Alighieri
They yearn for what they fear for. Dante Alighieri
Oh blind, oh ignorant, self seeking cupidity which spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. Dante Alighieri
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. Dante Alighieri
This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs. Dante Alighieri
There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. Dante Alighieri
That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit. Dante Alighieri
