I leave you the best phrases of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), great Italian poet, essayist and writer considered one of the great writers of all time. His great work The Divine Comedy is among the great classics of world literature.
He participated in the army and was also an activist and political thinker. He became prior - the highest magistrate position in Florence - and the Italian language is considered the father.
He also wrote a compilation of autobiographical poems known as La Vida Nueva and De vulgari eloquentia (on popular speech), an essay written in Latin.
Dante has inspired hundreds of writers and essayists and in his name the Dante Alighieri Society was founded, dedicated exclusively to the dissemination of the Italian language.
You may also be interested in these quotes from writers or these from La Divina Comedia.
-Continue under the guidance of your own star.
-The most perfect things are also the most susceptible to receive both appreciation and abuse.
-The secret for things to be done is to do them.
-There is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time when one is miserable.
-Nature is the purest expression of God's art.
-The arrow of destiny, when expected, travels slowly.
-The path that leads to paradise begins in hell.
-I love both doubt and certainty.
-The darkest corner of hell is reserved for those who retain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
-Three things we still have from paradise; the stars, the flowers and the children.
-The wiser you get, the more annoying it is to waste your time.
-There is a secret to living with the loved one; do not pretend to modify it.
-Poets leave hell and look at the stars again.
-Maintain the firmness of the tower, whose top does not shake neither by storms nor by winds.
-There are three provisions that remain adverse to heaven; incontinence, malice, and mad brutality.
-Until I've taken her back to hell.
-And I was informed of that torture, which was the hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.
-Everything that is created has an end in itself, and thus the form that makes the universe resemble God is generated.
-Open your mind to what I am going to reveal to you, and keep it inside; he who listens, but does not retain what he has heard, does not learn anything.
-A powerful fire, it is just the continuation of a small spark.
-It is known that the burning flame of love lasts a short time in a woman, when the eyes and the hands are unable to enliven it continuously.
-Pride, envy and greed are the sparks that have set fire to the hearts of all men.
-The mountain always has a tedious formation when you start, but it becomes easier on the highest peaks.
-Soon you will be in that place where your own eyes will see the source and the effect, and will give their own answer to the mystery.
-There was a time when we used to be men, although now we have become trees.
-Faith is the substance of the things we hope for, the evidence of those that are not visible.
-The weapons of divine justice lose their edge before the confession and the regret of the offender.
-That precious fruit for which all men undertake an anxious search in different places, will be given today to your hungry soul.
-It's so bitter, and death is a bit more so.
-So now, next to me, came that brutality that does not know peace and took me step by step back to the place where the sun is silent.
-In the middle of the path of our life, I found myself on a piece of wood, lost outside the straight path.
-Love insists that love returns from the beloved.
-Beauty awakens the acts of the soul.
-There is no greater sadness than remembering moments of joy in times of misery.
-If the current world goes astray, the cause is in you, and in you it must be sought.
-There is no way that heat can be separated from fire or beauty from the eternal.
-It's not always at ease when we laugh.
-At the peak moment, the ability that gives me the ability to describe fails.
-Oh, vertical and steel conscience, what bitterness brings the sting of a little guilt!
-We are not going to talk about them; rather watch and move on.
-All hope leaves those who enter here.
-This is a night to remember… she is the beginning of forever.
-There is nothing to fear, nothing can deprive us of our destiny, it is a gift.
-The wheels of heaven on high, unfold their eternal glories for you, however your eyes continue to rest on the earth.
-Keep your origins in mind, you were not created to live as beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
-My route has been established on an unexplored sea.
-Our peace resides in his will.
-The sad souls of those who lived without failures and without praise.
-He who listens well, takes notes.
-Art, to the extent of its possibilities, follows nature, just as a pupil imitates his teacher; so it must be your art. Granddaughter of God.
-Unless you moderate your pride, this will be your greatest punishment.
-Aristotle is the teacher of all those who know.
-Lust can occupy a place that is possible to forgive when it is on the path of learning to love.
-Oh, human race, born to fly, how then can a small breeze of wind make you fall?
-Experience will show you how salty someone else's bread is, and how painful it is to go up and down a foreign floor.
-No one thinks about the amount of blood it costs.
-He who can realize some need, and to help wait until they ask him, is as cruel as if he had never helped.
-They long for what they fear.
-So honest and so gentle my lady looks, when her greeting delivers, that it makes all the tongues tremble and go mute, and not even the eyes dare to look at her.
-Through me you will visit the city of tears, through me you will enter into eternal pain, through me you will walk among lost people.
- Greed has such a mean and perverse nature that it never succeeds in calming its eagerness. After eating she is not satisfied and thus her hunger remains intact.
-We are lost and only half have we been punished.
-When we lose all hope we have to live in the midst of desires.
-But those stars that once marked our beginning are now leaving.
-We must move towards deeper pains, since we are not allowed to stay here.
-For the one who makes my veins and my pulse tremble.
-My hope is that we can't see the sky anymore. I have come to guide you to the other shore, to eternal darkness, in fire and in ice.
-I did not shed tears, my heart was made of stone.
-It was the hour of the morning, when the sun took its place above the stars that shine with it, when the love of God himself established for the first time the right movement of things.
-Now you know how much my love for you burns deep inside me, when forgetting our emptiness, I face shadows and solid things.
-We should not be afraid of anything outside of things that have real power to harm others. Everything else is not to be feared at all.
-Well deserved has someone who laments, by toiling after what does not last, of the torment that he finds in his life.
-Who knows about pain, knows everything.
-However, what kind of person are you who dares to judge the events that occur a thousand miles away with your vision that only covers a short stretch?
-With wine, poetry flourishes in the hearts of men.
-In spite of everything, now my will and my desire move as part of the same wheel, setting their own rhythm.
-Fast is born love towards that heart that is gentle.
"That's when we go out to look at the stars again."
-In the depth of such sorrow the tongue moves in vain; the language of our memory and our senses lacks its own vocabulary for such pain.
-Things become more perfect the more they can bear pleasure and pain.
-The demon is not as black as they paint it.
-The human race reaches its best state, the more freedom it has.
-In that book that is my memory, on the first page of the chapter that is the day I met you, the words appear, «here a new life begins».
-Within the eternal darkness, inside the fire, inside the ice.
-Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like the brutes but to follow the virtuous and wise.
-I am the way to the city of affliction, I am the way to eternal pain, I am the way to follow among the lost.
-I have not died and, even so, I lost the breath of life.
-There is a gentle thought that sometimes makes me feel alive, because it is a thought of you.
-Love, which does not absolve anyone loved from loving, grabbed me so tightly with its charm that, as you can see, it has not left me yet.
-Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
-Soon you will be in a place where your own eyes will see and the answer to the great mystery will be given.
-The weapons of divine justice are imbued with the confession and repentance of the offender.
-Now our minds are like smoke, but soon they will be like fire.
-Pride, greed and envy are the three sparks that incinerate the heart.
-My mind was full of other things at the time I got out of the way.
-If you, free as you are, have remained down here; it is unlikely that even a living flame will continue to burn above.