Dante Alighieri

“Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”

“Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”

“Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde”

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”

“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.”

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”

“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.”

“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”

“The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.”

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”

“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”

“Small projects need much more help than great.”

“Will cannot be quenched against its will.”

“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.”

“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.”

“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!”

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.”

“He listens well who takes notes.”

“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”

“I wept not, so to stone within I grew.”

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”

“The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.”

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

“I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.”

“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.”

“From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.”

“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.”

“Love, that moves the sun and the other stars”

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”

“From a little spark may burst a flame.”

“Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain...”

“If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.”

“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.”

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

“Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”

“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”

“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

“From a little spark may burst a flame.”