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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
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
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Dante Alighieri
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge
Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence
Dante Alighieri
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
Dante Alighieri
I wept not, so to stone within I grew
Dante Alighieri
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
Dante Alighieri
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge
Dante Alighieri
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, but give them truth to build on.
Dante Alighieri
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Dante Alighieri
From a little spark may burst a flame.
Dante Alighieri
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Dante Alighieri
Still desiring, we live without hope.
Dante Alighieri
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense
Dante Alighieri
Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
Dante Alighieri
Follow your own star!
Dante Alighieri
Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery
Dante Alighieri
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri
Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
Dante Alighieri
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us
Dante Alighieri
Reason, thou see'st, hath all too short a wing
Dante Alighieri
It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays
Dante Alighieri
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