Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.”

— Dante Alighieri

202. “And my Guide to me: “He will not wake again until the angel trumpet sounds the day on which the host shall come to judge all men.”

— Dante Alighieri

203. “The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.”

— Dante Alighieri

204. “Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.”

— Dante Alighieri

205. “Our powers, whether of mind or tongue, cannot embrace that measure of understanding.”

— Dante Alighieri

206. “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

207. “Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!”

— Dante Alighieri

208. “As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.”

— Dante Alighieri

209. “Less shame a greater fault would palliate.”

— Dante Alighieri

210. “The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.”

— Dante Alighieri

211. “Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.”

— Dante Alighieri

212. “In this place piety lives where pity is dead.”

— Dante Alighieri

213. “It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do.”

— Dante Alighieri

214. “Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds.”

— Dante Alighieri

215. “That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.”

— Dante Alighieri

216. “O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.”

— Dante Alighieri

217. “And just as he who unwills what he wills and shifts what he intends to seek new ends so that he’s drawn from what he had begun, so was I in the midst of that dark land, because, with all my thinking, I annulled the task I had so quickly undertaken.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

219. “Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

221. “In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.”

— Dante Alighieri

222. “I by not doing, not by doing, lost.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

224. “Await no further word or sign from me: your will is free, erect, and whole – to act against that will would be to err: therefore I crown and miter you over yourself.”

— Dante Alighieri

225. “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

226. “As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.”

— Dante Alighieri

227. “There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.”

— Dante Alighieri

228. “The ghost of the generous poet replied: ‘If I have understood your words correctly, your spirit is attacked by cowardly fear, that often weighs men down, so that it deflects them from honourable action, like a creature seeing phantoms in the dusk.”

— Dante Alighieri

229. “Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.”

— Dante Alighieri

230. “Nobility is the perfection in each thing of its proper nature.”

— Dante Alighieri

231. “I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.”

— Dante Alighieri

232. “Remember tonight for it’s the beginning of forever.”

— Dante Alighieri

233. “Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain...”

— Dante Alighieri

234. “Like the pages of a book soaked shut by time.”

— Dante Alighieri

235. “So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute.”

— Dante Alighieri

236. “Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.”

— Dante Alighieri

237. “Well do I see how the Eternal Ray, which, once seen, kindles love forevermore, already shines on you. If on your way some other thing seduce your love, my brother, it can only be a trace, misunderstood, of this, which you see shining through the other.”

— Dante Alighieri

238. “We all so willingly record our gains, until the hour that leads us into loss. Then every single thought is tears and sadness.”

— Dante Alighieri

239. “I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.”

— Dante Alighieri

240. “He did what any hero must: set sail. But you, you turn back. Tell me why.”

— Dante Alighieri

241. “These are the radiancies of the perfected vision that sees the good and step by step moves nearer what it sees.”

— Dante Alighieri

242. “Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.”

— Dante Alighieri

243. “Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind’s discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...”

— Dante Alighieri

244. “Small projects need much more help than great.”

— Dante Alighieri

245. “Let us go, for the length of our journey demands it.”

— Dante Alighieri

246. “These have not the hope to die.”

— Dante Alighieri

247. “And what is laughter but a flashing of the soul, that is, a light appearing externally as it is within.”

— Dante Alighieri

248. “Honor is the greatest poet.”

— Dante Alighieri

249. “Oh how time hangs and drags till our aid comes!”

— Dante Alighieri

250. “Oh blind cupidity, O wrath insane, That spurs us onward so on our short life, And in the eternal then so badly steeps us!”

— Dante Alighieri