Top 300 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “I learnt that the carnal sinners are condemned to these torments, they who subject their reason to their lust.”

— Dante Alighieri

252. “There is no greater sorrow Than to remember a happy time when you are In misery, and that, your Teacher knows.”

— Dante Alighieri

253. “O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!”

— Dante Alighieri

254. “Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.”

— Dante Alighieri

255. “A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.”

— Dante Alighieri

256. “The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

258. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

260. “Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!”

— Dante Alighieri

261. “And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.”

— Dante Alighieri

262. “Three sparks – pride, envy, and avarice – have been kindled in all hearts.”

— Dante Alighieri

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

268. “Honor is the greatest poet.”

— Dante Alighieri

269. “It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.”

— Dante Alighieri

270. “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

271. “Thy soul is by vile fear assailed.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

273. “Those things that have the power to hurt are to be feared: not those other things that are not fearful. I am made such, by God’s grace, that your suffering does not touch me, nor does the fire of this burning scorch me.”

— Dante Alighieri

274. “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

275. “Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.”

— Dante Alighieri

276. “Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?”

— Dante Alighieri

277. “When he saw me weeping, he answered: ‘You must go another road, if you wish to escape this savage place. This creature, that distresses you, allows no man to cross her path, but obstructs him, to destroy him, and she has so vicious and perverse a nature, that she never sates her greedy appetite, and after food is hungrier than before.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

279. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

280. “Through me you go to the grief wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest Power, of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love. Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings. And I endure eternally. Surrender as you enter, every hope you have.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

282. “I say that when she appeared, in whatever place, by the hope embodied in that marvelous greeting, for me no enemy remained, in fact I shone with a flame of charity that made me grant pardon to whoever had offended me: and if anyone had then asked me anything my reply would only have been: ‘Love’, with an aspect full of humility.”

— Dante Alighieri

283. “What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?”

— Dante Alighieri

284. “Go right on and listen as thou goest.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

286. “Hence we may overthrow the error of those who think to form the moral character of others by speaking well and doing ill; forgetting that the hands of Jacob were more persuasive with his father than his words, though his hands deceived and his voice spake truth.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

288. “The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.”

— Dante Alighieri

289. “Haste denies all acts their dignity.”

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290. “He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first.”

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291. “We forget what we have heard if we do not write it down.”

— Dante Alighieri

292. “Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.”

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293. “O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!”

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294. “Still desiring, we live without hope.”

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295. “He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.”

— Dante Alighieri

296. “I might then squeeze the juices of my thought more fully out of me.”

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297. “My senses down, when the true.”

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298. “Hasty opinion too often points the wrong way, and then affection for one’s own opinion binds up the intellect.”

— Dante Alighieri

299. “There is no greater sorrow... than to be mindful of the happy time.”

— Dante Alighieri

300. “We were still some way from it, but not so far that I failed to discern in part what noble people occupied that place.”

— Dante Alighieri