Quotes from Dante Alighieri
It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
- Dante Alighieri
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
- Dante Alighieri
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
- Dante Alighieri
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.
- Dante Alighieri
I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath
- Dante Alighieri
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
- Dante Alighieri
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
- Dante Alighieri
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
- Dante Alighieri
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
- Dante Alighieri
Love insists the loved loves back
- Dante Alighieri
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
- Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
- Dante Alighieri