Memorable Quotes and quotations from Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Italian national epic poet (1265 - 1321)


Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
- Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
- A great flame follows a little spark.

Dante Alighieri -
- For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
- There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
- Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.

Dante Alighieri - Purgatorio, XVII , 59-60
- For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
- Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.


Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
- All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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- The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
- 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 - The Divine Comedy
- He listens well who takes notes.

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
- A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
- If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.