Quotes from Dante Alighieri

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of the will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts…Beyond the range of human intellect.

And in His will is our peace.

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

[Beatrice] who shall be a light between truth and intellect.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.