547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.

Open your mind to what I shall explain, then close around it, for it is no learning to understand what one does not retain.

My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path.

Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind’s discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...

What is a smile but the coruscation of the joy of the soul, like the outward shining of an inward light.

The ghost of the generous poet replied: ‘If I have understood your words correctly, your spirit is attacked by cowardly fear, that often weighs men down, so that it deflects them from honourable action, like a creature seeing phantoms in the dusk.

He did what any hero must: set sail. But you, you turn back. Tell me why.

You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.

Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves.