Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “We forget what we have heard if we do not write it down.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

304. “Names are the consequences of things.”

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

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

— Dante Alighieri

307. “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

308. “My senses down, when the true.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

311. “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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312. “It follows, then, that the only way to get into Hell is to insist upon it. One must deliberately exclude himself from grace by hardening his heart against it. Hell is what the damned have actively and insistently wished for.”

— Dante Alighieri

313. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

315. “Look hard, all you whose minds are sound and sane, and wonder at the meaning lying veiled beyond the curtain of this alien verse.”

— Dante Alighieri

316. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

318. “From now on you will have to cast off sloth in this way,” said my master, “for one does not gain fame sitting on-down cushions, or while under coverlets; and whoever consumes his life without fame leaves a mark of himself on earth like smoke in the air or foam in water. And therefore stand up; conquer your panting with the spirit that conquers in every battle, if it does not let the heavy body crush it down.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

320. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

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323. “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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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. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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.”

— Dante Alighieri

327. “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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328. “These innumerable seekers of safety first, and last, who take no risk either of suffering in a good cause or of scandal in a bad one, are here manifestly, nakedly, that which they were in life, the waste and rubbish of the universe, of no account to the world, unfit for Heaven and barely admitted to Hell. They have no need to die, for they ‘never were alive’.”

— Dante Alighieri

329. “Hell exists from within.”

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330. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

333. “Vexilla Regis prodeunt Inferni.”

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

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336. “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

337. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

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340. “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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341. “All who, in wanting grace, do not seek help from you, might wish to soar yet lack the wings. Nor in your kindness do you give your aid to those alone who ask, but often run, before they ask, to them in generous freedom. In you is pity, in you compassion, in you all-giving power. All good in you is gathered up that creature form can bear.”

— Dante Alighieri

342. “Now you can plainly see how deeply hidden truth is from scrutinists who would insist that every love is, in itself, praiseworthy; and they are led to error by the matter of love, because it may seem-always-good; but not each seal is fine, although the wax is.”

— Dante Alighieri

343. “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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344. “Or discendiamo omai a maggior pieta;.”

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345. “It was that hour that turns seafarers’ longings homeward- the hour that makes their hearts grow tender upon the day they big sweet friends farewell...”

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

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347. “She by her nature is cruel, so vicious she never can sate her voracious will, but, feasting well, is hungrier than before.”

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348. “The Comedy is a glorification of the ways of God, but it is also a sharp and great-minded protest at the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan.”

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349. “As mating doves that love calls to their nest glide through the air with motionless raised wings, borne by the sweet desire that fills each breast – Just so those spirits turned on the torn sky from the band where Dido whirls across the air; such was.”

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350. “He eyed the snake. The reptile eyed him back. Each gave out smoke in streams – the wound of one, the serpent’s jaws. The smoke streams slowly met.”

— Dante Alighieri