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Quotes by Dante Alighieri

Italian national epic poet (1265 - 1321)

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery.

He listens well who takes notes.

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

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

A great flame follows a little spark.

The experience of this sweet life.L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.

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

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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

For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.