The quotations of

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher

1265–1321

14 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and God. Part of the Writers collection.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Morality
He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves.
- Love
The secret of getting things done is to act!
- Work
He listens well who takes notes.
- Education
All malice has injustice at it’s end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.
The Inferno, Canto XI
- Truth & Lies
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, lines 85–87 (tr. Ciardi)
- God
- Love
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno, Canto III, line 9
- Hope
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
The Divine Comedy (1320), Inferno, Canto V, lines 121-123, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation (1867)In context
- Life & Death
She is the sum of nature’s universe.
To her perfection all of beauty tends.
La Vita Nuova (c. 1293), Chapter XIX, canzone “Donne ch’avete intelletto d’amore”, lines 49–50 (tr. Barbara Reynolds)
- Beauty
Of those things only should one be afraid
Which have the power of doing others harm;
Of the rest, no; because they are not fearful.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Inferno, Canto IIIn context
- Fear
And after it there came so long a train
Of people, that I ne’er would have believed
That ever Death so many had undone.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Inferno, Canto IIIIn context
- Life & Death
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Inferno, Canto IIn context
- Life & Death
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Paradiso, Canto XXXIIIIn context
- God
- Love

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