Quotes from Dante Alighieri
Follow your own star!
- Dante Alighieri
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
- Dante Alighieri
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
- Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
- Dante Alighieri
The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
- Dante Alighieri
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
- Dante Alighieri
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
- Dante Alighieri
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
- Dante Alighieri
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
- Dante Alighieri
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
- Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
- Dante Alighieri
And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.
- Dante Alighieri