547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra,

Abandon every hope, you who enter.