Best Dante Alighieri Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He whom you see—along the downward arc— was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

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

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

This other radiance that shows itself to you at my right hand, a brightness kindled by all the light that fills our heaven-- she has understood what I have said: she was a sister, and from her head, too, by force, the shadow of the sacred veil was taken. But though she had been turned back to the world against her will, against all honest practice, the veil upon her heart was never loosed. This is the splendor of the great Costanza, who from the Swabians' second gust engendered the one who was their third and final power.