Quotes from Dante Alighieri

You shall leave everything you love.

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

Love can move the Sun and the stars.

Small projects need much more help than great.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

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

Follow your own star!

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Ail hope abandon, ye who enter here.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

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

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

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

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

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

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