Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìaand later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
CountryItaly
knowledge men divine-comedy
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
soul neutrality moral
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]
fall believe men
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
faith taken fate
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
real love-is mind
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.
spring speak gentle
There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
heart pride men
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
memories book littles
In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.
kindness waiting be-kind
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
mankind
Mankind is at its best when it is most free.
light giving people
If you give people light, they will find their own way.
baby stars children
Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
stars moving sun
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)
people path
Follow your path, and let the people talk.