Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.”

— Dante Alighieri

302. “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

303. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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310. “Names are the consequences of things.”

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

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312. “Allegro mi sembrava Amor tenendo meo core in mano, e ne le braccia avea madonna involta in un drappo dormendo.”

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

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

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315. “Before me nothing was created but eternal things and I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye that enter.”

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316. “My senses down, when the true.”

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317. “No one, while hope shows any hint of green, is lost beyond return to love eternal merely because the Church has voiced its curse.”

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318. “Quick! Quick! Let’s lose no time through lack of love!’ so all of those behind now shouted out. ‘For zeal in doing good turns grace new green.”

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

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320. “I had set foot in that part of life beyond which one cannot go with any hope of returning.”

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321. “Thus into the sempiternal justice the sight conferred in your world penetrates only as far as the eye does into the sea, for though close to shore you may see the bottom, on the open sea you cannot, and nonetheless it is there, but hidden by being deep.”

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322. “It treats of the most universal values – good and evil, man’s responsibility, free will and predestination; yet it is intensely personal and political, for it was written out of the anguish of a man who saw his life blighted by the injustice and corruption of his times.”

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323. “Like those who see so clearly while they dream that marks of feeling, when their dreaming ends, remain, though nothing more returns to mind, so I am now. For nearly all I saw has gone, even if, still, within my heart, there drops the sweetness that was born from that.”

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324. “Questo sonetto ha due parti principali; che ne la prima intendo chiamare li fedeli d’Amore per quelle parole di Geremia profeta che dicono: “O vos omnes qui transitis per viam, attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus”, e pregare che mi sofferino d’audire;.”

— Dante Alighieri

325. “Esta suerte miserable tienen las tristes almas de aquellos que vivieron sin infamia y sin honor.”

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326. “The moon, with midnight now behind us, made the stars seem scarcer to us; it was shaped just like a copper basin, gleaming, new.”

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327. “Because your human longings point to where portions grow smaller in shared fellowship, meanness of mind must make the bellows sigh. 52 If love, though, seeking for the utmost sphere, should ever wrench your longings to the skies, such fears would have no place within your breast. 55 For, there, the more that we can speak of “ours”, the more each one possesses of the good and, in that cloister, caritas burns brighter.”

— Dante Alighieri

328. “When virtue lights in us 11 a fire of love, that love ignites another within the soul that sees its burning.”

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329. “You’ll leave behind you all you hold most dear. And this will be the grievous arrow barb that exile, first of all, will shoot your way.”

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330. “For when the powers of working intellect are wed to strength and absolute illwill, then humans cannot find a place to hide.”

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331. “Love that is kindled by virtue, will, in another find reply, as long as that love’s flame appears without...”

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332. “And he, my strength, swung straight around to say: ‘Why so dismayed and faithless? Don’t you know that I am with you and still guide your steps?”

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333. “Turn back and seek the safety of the shore; tempt not the deep, lest, losing unawares me and yourselves, you come to port no more.”

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334. “This writing is of bone and sinew.”

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335. “Thou shalt prove how salty tastes another’s bread, and how hard a path it is to go up and down another’s stairs.”

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336. “What blind cupidity, what crazy rage impels us onwards in our little lives – then dunks us in this stew to all eternity!”

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337. “The Divine Comedy is classically referred to as the epitome, the supreme expression of the Middle Ages.”

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338. “The allegory is the soul of the poem, but like the soul within the body it does not show itself in independent existence.”

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339. “My sins and crimes were horrible to hear. God, though, unendingly is good. His arms enfold and grasp all those who turn to Him.”

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340. “Vexilla Regis prodeunt Inferni.”

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341. “You have the light that shows you right from wrongs, and your Free Will, which, though it may grow faint in its struggles with the heavens, can still surmount all obstacles if nurtured well. You are free of subjects of a greater power, a nobler nature that creates your mind... So, if the world has gone astray, the cause lies in yourselves and only there!”

— Dante Alighieri

342. “Ah! what caution must men use With those who look not at the deed alone, But spy into the thoughts with subtle skill!”

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343. “So that their fear is turned into desire.”

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344. “Great flames are kindled where the small sparks fly.”

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345. “Zoals bloempjes die door de vrieskou van de nacht gebogen en gesloten zijn, wanneer de zon haar stralen over hen uitgiet alle opengaan en zich oprichten op hun stengels, zo hief ik mij toen op uit mijn neerslachtigheid.”

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346. “He listens to good purpose who takes note.”

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347. “Remember this, if Fortune leads you on to where such spats as this are played out loud. 148 To wish to hear such stuff is pretty low.”

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348. “Or discendiamo omai a maggior pieta;.”

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349. “Follow your constellation and you cannot fail to reach your port of glory.”

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350. “How did you get yourself in such a pickle?”

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