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
men air water
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
men relaxation every-man
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
men giving good-man
I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.
men way taste
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
love men may
No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.
men corn fields
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
men hue fame
A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
men wings anxiety
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
men feet numbers
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.
blow men wind
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
men charity thieves
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
true-love men self
Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
men desert beloved
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
twilight men soul
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.