Top 100 Alighieri Quotes
#1. The chief imagination of Christendom,
Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself
That he has made that hollow face of his
More plain to the mind's eye than any face
But that of Christ.
William Butler Yeats
#2. And of that second kingdom will I sing Wherein the human spirit doth purge itself, And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy. -Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto I.004-006.
Sylvain Reynard
#3. Life is a " vale of tears" a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Inferno; Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi)
Dante Alighieri
#4. Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.
Roberto Benigni
#5. Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death.
Dan Brown
#6. Dante Alighieri. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dan Brown
#7. Remember tonight ... for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri
Dan Brown
#8. I saw within Its depth how It conceives
All things in a single volume bound by Love
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Dante Alighieri
#9. Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
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#10. He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first
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#15. Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.
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#16. Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
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#19. Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.
That without hope we live in desire.
Dante Alighieri
#20. Now you know how much my love for you
burns deep in me
when I forget about our emptiness,
and deal with shadows as with solid things.
Dante Alighieri
#22. Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!
Dante Alighieri
#23. It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.
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#24. We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.
Dante Alighieri
#25. He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
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#26. It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more.
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#27. Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
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#28. As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
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#29. It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do.
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#32. At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
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#33. There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
Dante Alighieri
#34. your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.
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#35. Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
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#36. At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
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#37. This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.
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#38. One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful.
Dante Alighieri
#40. The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
Dante Alighieri
#41. Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages.
Matthew Pearl
#45. High justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy.
Dante Alighieri
#47. My will and my desire were both revolved, as is a wheel in even motion driven, by Love, which moves the sun and other stars.
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#48. Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
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#50. Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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#51. Three dispositions adverse to Heaven's still, - Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.
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#52. As the geometer intently seeks
to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
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#53. There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.
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#55. Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds.
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#56. Beheld a power whose head was crowned with signs of victory.
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#57. I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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#58. The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.
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#59. As at those words did I myself become;
And all my love was so absorbed in Him,
That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed.
Dante Alighieri
#60. The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
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#61. And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.
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#63. The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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#64. Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.
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#65. Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain...
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#66. Though every city shall he hunt her down,
Until he shall driven her back to Hell,
There from whence envy first did let her loose.
Dante Alighieri
#67. Farinata and Tegghiaio, men of good blood, Jacopo Rusticucci, Arrigo, Mosca, and the others who set their hearts on doing good - where are they now whose high deeds might be-gem the crown of kings? I long to know their fate. Does Heaven soothe or Hell envenom them?
Dante Alighieri
#70. The loser, when a game of dice is done,
remains behind reviewing every roll
sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
Dante Alighieri
#72. O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud
what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.
Dante Alighieri
#75. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.
Dante Alighieri
#76. Being by such a noble lover kissed,
This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided,
Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating.
Dante Alighieri
#78. Certainly, he was the only one in the room who'd actually engaged Dante in direct conversation and informed the Poet he was an ass.
Sylvain Reynard
#79. It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
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#80. I love to doubt as well as know."
~ Dante's Inferno, Canto XI, 93: "non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.
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#81. You've built yourselves a god from silver and gold.
How does that differ from idol worship, except
Those people worship one god and you a hundred?
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#82. Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one's absolute attention.
Dante Alighieri
#83. FIRST CIRCLE. Here they find the VIRTUOUS PAGANS. They were born without the light of Christ's revelation, and, therefore, they cannot come into the light of God, but they are not tormented. Their only pain is that they have no hope.
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#84. I know this is a major cultural artifact but it's bad for the community.
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#85. Whoso laments, that we must doff this garb
Of frail mortality, thenceforth to live
Immortally above, he hath not seen
The sweet refreshing, of that heav'nly shower.
Dante Alighieri
#86. If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.
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#87. My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
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#88. No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
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#89. While the everlasting pleasure, that did full On Beatrice shine, with second view From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul Contented; vanquishing me with a beam Of her soft smile, she spake: Turn thee, and list. These eyes are not thy only Paradise.
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#90. Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
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#91. Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...
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#92. Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all.
William Allingham
#93. There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
Dante Alighieri
#94. Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.
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#95. Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct.
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#96. Knowledge comes
Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
Dante Alighieri
#97. The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
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#98. Well, if the kid screws up, then I'll just have to kick his ass.
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#99. Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
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#100. The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
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