Dante Alighieri

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

— Dante Alighieri

These have not the hope to die.

— Dante Alighieri

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

— Dante Alighieri

In His will is our peace.

— Dante Alighieri

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

— Dante Alighieri

Abandon all hope, you who enter here!

— Dante Alighieri

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

— Dante Alighieri

Follow your own star!

— Dante Alighieri

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.

— Dante Alighieri

Nature is the art of God.

— Dante Alighieri

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

— Dante Alighieri

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

— Dante Alighieri

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

— Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

— Dante Alighieri