Famous Quotes

Quotes by Dante Alighieri

• All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
• Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
• Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
• Beauty awakens the soul to act.
• Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
• Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
• Nature is the art of God.
• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
• The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
• The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
• The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
• The secret of getting things done is to act!
• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.