Quotes by Dante Alighieri
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here!
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
In His will is our peace.
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself astray in a dark wood where the straight road had been lost sight of.
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.
A great flame follows a little spark.
He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here
The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
