547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

He is not always at ease who laughs.

…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

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.

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.