Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!Collection: Hope
Nature is the art of God.Collection: God
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.Collection: Sympathy
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Collection: Beauty
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.Collection: Sad
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Beauty awakens the soul to act.Collection: Beauty
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Art
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.Collection: Men
The secret of getting things done is to act!Collection: Politics
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.Collection: History
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.Collection: Meaningful
Everywhere is here and every when is now.Collection: Time
Follow your path, and let the people talk.Collection: People
If you give people light, they will find their own way.Collection: Light
The path to paradise begins in hell.Collection: Paradise
There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.Collection: Spring
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.Collection: Love
Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.Collection: Baby
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.Collection: Love
Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.Collection: People
If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.Collection: World
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Collection: Life
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)Collection: Stars
From a small spark, Great flame has risen.Collection: Flames
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.Collection: Faith
The devil is not as black as he is painted.Collection: Black
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.Collection: Freedom
O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.Collection: Men
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.Collection: Blow
Love can move the Sun and the stars.Collection: Stars
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.Collection: Christianity
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.Collection: Men
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.Collection: World
A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.Collection: Hurt
"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.Collection: Spiritual
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.Collection: Pain
At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.Collection: Dark
Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.Collection: Oneness
To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.Collection: Beautiful
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.Collection: Dream
A backward glance can often lift the heart.Collection: Heart
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.Collection: Doe
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.Collection: Pain
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Shadow
... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)Collection: Pain