Dante Alighieri Quotes

"From now on you will have to cast off sloth in this way," said my master, "for one does not gain fame sitting on-down cushions, or while under coverlets; and whoever consumes his life without fame leaves a mark of himself on earth like smoke in the air or foam in water. And therefore stand up; conquer your panting with the spirit that conquers in every battle, if it does not let the heavy body crush it down."

Dianzi, ne l’alba che procede al giorno,
quando l’anima tua dentro dormia

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for good people who — in times of moral crisis — choose to do nothing.

Poi si rivolse, e parve di coloro
che corrono a Verona il drappo verde
per la campagna; e parve di costoro

quelli che vince, non colui che perde.

Por que irei? Quem permite esta jornada?
Eneias, Paulo sou? Essa ventura
33 Nem eu, nem outrem crê ser-me adaptada.

It was that hour that turns seafarers' longings homeward- the hour that makes their hearts grow tender upon the day they big sweet friends farewell...

Now you know how much my love for you
burns deep in me
when I forget about our emptiness,
and deal with shadows as with solid things.

O you, who in some pretty boat,
Eager to listen, have been following
Behind my ship, that singing sails along

Turn back to look again upon your own shores;
Tempt not the deep, lest unawares,
In losing me, you yourselves might be lost.

The sea I sail has never yet been passed;
Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo,
And Muses nine point out to me the Bears.

You other few who have neck uplifted
Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated,

Well may you launch your vessel
Upon the deep sea.

Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words

e la sua volontate è nostra pace:
ella è quel mare, al qual tutto si move
ciò ch'ella crea e che natura face.

Love rules me. It determines what I ask.

As puffed out sails fall when the mast gives way and flutter to a self-convulsing heap — so collapsed Plutus into that dead clay.

Well do I see how the Eternal Ray, which, once seen, kindles love forevermore, already shines on you. If on your way some other thing seduce your love, my brother, it can only be a trace, misunderstood, of this, which you see shining through the other.

Beatrice tells Dante in Paradise, Canto XVIII: “Change your thoughts. Consider that I dwell with Him who lifts the weight of every wrong.” (L. 5-6)

1) la felicidad de cada uno está en proporción a su capacidad para sentirla, y 2) esta felicidad consiste solamente en la perfecta adecuación a la voluntad divina.