Top 274 Quotes & Sayings by Dante Alighieri

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

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

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

Nature is the art of God.

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

He listens well who takes notes.

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

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Small projects need much more help than great.

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

The secret of getting things done is to act!

I love to doubt as well as know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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

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.

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

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

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.

Follow your own star!

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

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

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

Love insists the loved loves back

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

Everywhere is here and every when is now.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.