Dante Alighieri Quotes

As one who wills, and then unwills his will,
Changing his mind with every changing whim,
Till all his best intentions come to nil,

So I stood havering in that moorland dim,
While through fond rifts of fancy oozed away
The first quick zest that filled me to the brim.

faith is the substance of things hoped for and argument of those that do not appear,

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves

Its very memory gives a shape to fear. Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!

"Aquele em vida foi arrogante, nada de bom recordamos dele, por isso está entre os furiosos. Muitos daqueles que lá na Terra foram grandes senhores aqui estão como porcos no chiqueiro, recebendo o mais vil desprezo." - Inferno - Canto VIII

Ou asas de um desejo, que não cansa,

You did as one who, walking by night,
Carries the light behind him, where it does him no good,
But is of advantage to those who come after him.

Amor condusse noi ad una morte.

"Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto
Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse;
Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto
Per più fiate gli occhi ci sospinse
Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso;
Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse.
Quando leggemmo il disiato riso
Esser baciato da cotanto amante,
Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso,
La bocca mi baciò tutto tremante.
Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse:
Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante."

""We were reading one day, to pass the time,
of Lancelot, how love had seized him.
We were alone, and without any suspicion
And time and time again our eyes would meet
over that literature, and our faces paled,
and yet one point alone won us.
When we had read how the desired smile
was kissed by so true a lover,
This one, who never shall be parted from me,
kissed my mouth, all a-tremble.
Gallehault was the book and he who wrote it
That day we read no further.

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.

Si deseáramos estar más elevadas, nuestro anhelo estaría en desacuerdo con la voluntad de Aquel que nos reúne aquí, desacuerdo que no admiten las esferas celestes, como verás si consideras bien que aquí es condición necesaria estar unidas a Dios por medio de la caridad y que la naturaleza de la caridad es ella misma, es decir, conformarse a la voluntad del ser amado. También es necesario a nuestra existencia bienaventurada uniformar la propia voluntad a la de Dios, de modo que nuestras mismas voluntades se refundan en una. Así es que el estar como estamos distribuidas de grado en grado por este reino configura la naturaleza del mismo, porque place al Rey cuya voluntad es la nuestra. En su voluntad está nuestra paz; ella es el mar a donde va a parar todo lo que ha creado o lo que hace la Naturaleza.

But all together they drew to that grim shore
where all must come who lose the fear of God.
Weeping and cursing they come for evermore,

Here powers failed my high imagination:
But by now my desire and will were turned,
Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly,
By the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

should it occur again, as we walk on,
that we find ourselves where others of this crew
fall into such petty wrangling and upbraiding.
The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.