Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nature is the art of God.”

— Dante Alighieri

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2. “The path to paradise begins in hell.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

4. “All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”

— Dante Alighieri

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5. “The secret of getting things done is to act!”

— Dante Alighieri

6. “Follow your own star!”

— Dante Alighieri

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7. “Follow your path, and let the people talk.”

— Dante Alighieri

8. “Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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11. “From a little spark may burst a flame.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

13. “Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

15. “The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”

— Dante Alighieri

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16. “The devil is not as black as he is painted.”

— Dante Alighieri

17. “Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”

— Dante Alighieri

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18. “If your world isn’t right, the cause is in you.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

20. “Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.”

— Dante Alighieri

21. “Love insists the loved loves back.”

— Dante Alighieri

22. “Eternal love made me.”

— Dante Alighieri

23. “Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”

— Dante Alighieri

24. “Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can’t go on together, let’s retrace our steps as quickly as we can.”

— Dante Alighieri

25. “But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

26. “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”

— Dante Alighieri

27. “He is not always at ease who laughs.”

— Dante Alighieri

28. “From there we came outside and saw the stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

29. “A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”

— Dante Alighieri

30. “Consider that this day ne’er dawns again.”

— Dante Alighieri

31. “I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath.”

— Dante Alighieri

32. “He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.”

— Dante Alighieri

33. “If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

35. “I love to doubt as well as know.”

— Dante Alighieri

36. “Everywhere is here and every when is now.”

— Dante Alighieri

37. “The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

39. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”

— Dante Alighieri

40. “I wept not, so to stone within I grew.”

— Dante Alighieri

41. “In His will, our peace.”

— Dante Alighieri

42. “He listens well who takes notes.”

— Dante Alighieri

43. “I made my own house be my gallows.”

— Dante Alighieri

44. “But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.”

— Dante Alighieri

45. “A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.”

— Dante Alighieri

46. “Knowledge comes Of learning well retain’d, unfruitful else.”

— Dante Alighieri

47. “You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left.”

— Dante Alighieri

48. “Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.”

— Dante Alighieri

49. “They yearn for what they fear for.”

— Dante Alighieri

50. “Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.”

— Dante Alighieri