Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy
Sayings by Dante Alighieri
I am not Aeneas; I am not Paul: neither I nor others think me worthy of that.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
Through me the way to the dolorous city; Through me the way to eternal pain; Through me the way among the people lost.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
O human race, born for flight to heaven, why do you fall for a breath of wind?
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.
Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learned, seized him for the fair form that was ta'en from me; And still the mode offends me.
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
The deepest hell is reserved for those who betray their friends.
Nature has made me a lover of beauty, and not of gain.
The divine power, the supreme wisdom, and the primal love.
The greatest gift that God in his bounty bestowed on creation was the freedom of the will.
O you who have sound intellects, look closely at the doctrine that is hidden beneath the veil of the strange verses!
The more perfect a thing is, the more it is subject to good and bad.
I did not die, and yet I was not living.