Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work, La divina commedia , is considered the greatest literary statement produced in Europe in the medieval period, and the basis of the modern Italian language.

Found 31 thoughts of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

He listens well who takes notes.

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

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

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

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

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The secret of getting things done is to act.

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.

A great flame follows a little spark.

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

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

Small projects need much more help than great ones.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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

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.

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

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

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

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

I love to doubt as well as know.