Quotes from Dante Alighieri


Sorted by Popularity


Nature is the art of God.


No one thinks of how much blood it costs.


Small projects need much more help than great.


He listens well who takes notes.


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


I love to doubt as well as know.


Will cannot be quenched against its will.


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


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


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


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


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


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.


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


Follow your own star!


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


A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.


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


All hope abandon, ye who enter here!


I wept not, so to stone within I grew.