Quotes by 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.
• I love to doubt as well as know.
• O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
• No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
• Nature is the art of God.
• In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
• If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
• I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
• Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
• Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
• He listens well who takes notes.
• From a little spark may burst a flame.
• Beauty awakens the soul to act.
• All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
• A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
• Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
• Follow your own star!
• Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
• Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
• The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
• Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
• Will cannot be quenched against its will.
• The secret of getting things done is to act!
• The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
• The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
• 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.
• 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.
• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
• Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.