For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Action
Often a retrospect delights the mind.
—Dante Alighieri
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Greatness, One Step at a Time
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
—Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Sorrow
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Memory, Repentance, Remorse, Regret
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crises, maintain their neutrality.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Commitment, Morals, Dedication
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
—Dante Alighieri
Follow your own star!
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Individuality, Follow
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Little Things, Things
There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Grief
Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Pride
Art, as far as it has the ability, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master, so that art must be, as it were, a descendant of God.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Art
In His will is our peace.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: God
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Crying, Cries
In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself astray in a dark wood
where the straight road had been lost sight of.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Journeys
He listens well who takes notes.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Listening
The secret of getting things done is to act!
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Action
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Conscience
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Heaven
Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Eyes
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Perfection
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
Topics: Fame
This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Living, Life, Class
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Liberty
Abandon all hope, you who enter here!
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Hell
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
Topics: Hell
Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Shame
Only experience can show how salt the savor is of others’ bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another’s stairs.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Poverty
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
—Dante Alighieri
Topics: Hope
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