547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

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 insists the loved loves back.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God’s own love first set in motion those fair things.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.

Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can’t go on together, let’s retrace our steps as quickly as we can.

From there we came outside and saw the stars.

Wisdom is earned, not given.