Dante Alighieri was the greatest of Italian poets, and, many readers think, one of the greatest poets that Western civilization has produced. He wrote the epic work Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) in dialect Italian. Divina Commedia represented the cosmology and cosmogony of Dante’s day. Dante also wrote De Monarchia, a treatise on political science.
He believed that the purpose of government was to preserve peace and the best form was a world monarchy. According to his concept, universe was a perfect, hierarchal, intelligible cosmos. (1265-1321)
– Dante Alighieri Quotes –
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 darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
~ Dante Alighieri
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
~ Dante Alighieri
It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays.
~ Dante Alighieri
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
~ Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
~ Dante Alighieri
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
No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.
~ Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
~ Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
~ Dante Alighieri
He listens well who takes notes.
~ Dante Alighieri
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
~ Dante Alighieri
Follow your own star!
~ Dante Alighieri
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
~ Dante Alighieri
From a little spark may burst a flame.
~ Dante Alighieri
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
~ Dante Alighieri
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
~ Dante Alighieri
I love to doubt as well as know.
~ Dante Alighieri
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
~ Dante Alighieri
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
~ Dante Alighieri
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
~ Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~ Dante Alighieri
Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
~ Dante Alighieri
Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.
~ Dante Alighieri
Justice does not descend from its pinnacle.
~ Dante Alighieri
Small projects need much more help than great.
~ Dante Alighieri
Nature is the art of God.
~ Dante Alighieri
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
~ Dante Alighieri
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
~ Dante Alighieri
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
~ Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
~ Dante Alighieri
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
~ Dante Alighieri
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
~ Dante Alighieri
The secret of getting things done is to act!
~ Dante Alighieri
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
~ Dante Alighieri
The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.
~ Dante Alighieri
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
~ Dante Alighieri
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
~ Dante Alighieri
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
~ Dante Alighieri
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
~ Dante Alighieri
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.
~ Dante Alighieri
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
~ Dante Alighieri
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
~ Dante Alighieri
We climbed up…until I finally saw through a round opening the beauteous things which Heaven holds. And there we came out to see, once more, the stars.
~ Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
~ Dante Alighieri
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
~ Dante Alighieri
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
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
~ Dante Alighieri
