Top 42 Dante Alighieri Quotes About Life (LOVE)

Top 10 Most Famous Dante Alighieri Quotes (BEST)

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. — Do not be afraid; our **fate** cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

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

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. — There is no greater sorrow than to recall **happiness** in times of misery.

Nature is the art of God. — **Nature** is the art of God.

12 Inspirational Dante Alighieri Quotes About Life and Love (NATURE)

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. — Art, as far as it is able, follows **nature**, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.

Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love… and, mirror-like… each soul reflects the other. — The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their **love**… and, mirror-like… each soul reflects the other.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. — Worldly fame is but a **breath** of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and **changes** name as it changes direction.

Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

20 Wise Dante Alighieri Quotes to Make You Think (WISDOM)

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Everywhere is here and every when is now.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — The customs and fashions of men **change** like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. — You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.

Small projects need much more help than great.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! — All **hope** abandon, ye who enter here!

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

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

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

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

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

Follow your own star! Follow your path, and let the people talk.

Dante Alighieri Short Biography

Born in 1265 in Florence, Italy, Dante Alighieri was a poet and writer who is most famously known for his Divine Comedy or La Commedia.

There are not many details known about Alighieri’s life and most accounts are written by Alighieri himself. In his writing about his life, he pays tribute to many writers and poets who came before him who he sees as his mentors.

Little is known about his education; it is believed that he may have been homeschooled or enrolled in a chapter school.

Alighieri was exiled from Florence in 1302, and it is during this exile that the idea for La Commedia was born.

It took Alighieri 12 years to finish writing La Commedia. He started in 1308 and published the long narrative poem in 1320, a year before his death.

Dante’s Divine Comedy is considered one of the most impressive works of the literary world. Over time the Divine Comedy has been divided into three books; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

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