Quotes By Dante Alighieri

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

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.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Follow your own star!

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Small projects need much more help than great.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

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.

He listens well who takes notes.

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

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

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Nature is the art of God.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

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

From a little spark may burst a flame.

I love to doubt as well as know.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.