Dante Alighieri Quotes

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

Politics, Crisis, Hell

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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

Beauty, Soul, Act

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

Sympathy, Happiness, Times

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

Life, Lost, Dark

Follow your own star!
Dante Alighieri

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

Knowledge, Live, Follow

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

Good, Bad, Perfect

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

Eyes, Her, Heaven

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Dante Alighieri

Spark, Flame, Tiny

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

Remember, Beginning, Tonight

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.
Dante Alighieri

Hard, Down, Find

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.
Dante Alighieri

Nature, God, Art

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

Beauty, Fire, Cannot

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The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri

Politics, Done, Secret

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

Men, Envy, Fire

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

Sad, Blame, Lived

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Dante Alighieri

Within, Stone, Wept

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

History, Top, Tower

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

Present, Cause, Astray

Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Dante Alighieri

Cannot, Against, Quenched

I love to doubt as well as know.
Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Dante Alighieri

Hope, Here, Abandon

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

Moment, High, Ability

From a little spark may burst a flame.
Dante Alighieri

May, Spark, Flame

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
Dante Alighieri

Blood, Thinks, Costs

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Poet

Born: 1265

Died: 1321

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