45 phrases by Dante Alighieri that show the soul of the great poet

Reason is given to you to discern good from evil.

The weapons of divine justice lose their advantage in the face of the offender’s confession and grief.

You see that reason, following the path indicated by feelings, has short wings.

Unless you moderate your pride, that will be your greatest punishment.

So faithful was I to the glorious office, that I lost sleep and health.

In hell the hottest places are reserved for those who have chosen neutrality in times of crisis.

It is well known that the burning flame of love lasts for a short time in a woman, when the eyes and hands are unable to fan it continuously.

Things become more perfect as soon as they endure pleasure and pain.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the argument of things not seen, and this seems to me to be the essence of faith.

The passage from the human to the divine state cannot be expressed in words.

Be aware of your origins, you were not created to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Well, wasting time is more displeasing to those who know its value the most.

A mighty fire is just the continuation of a small spark.

The strain does not make individuals noble, but individuals make the strain noble.

The person who can see a need and help to wait until he asks is as cruel as if he never helped.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

The most perfect things are also the most likely to receive appreciation and abuse.

Who knows pain, knows everything.

Pride, envy and greed are the sparks that set the hearts of all men on fire.

Speaking is a natural effect, but, one way or another, nature lets man choose what he likes best.

Contradiction does not allow repentance and sin at the same time.

The wheels of heaven above show you their eternal glories, but their eyes remain on earth.

Who are you that you want to judge, with a view that only reaches a foot, things that are a thousand miles away?

When we have lost all hope, we have to live in the midst of desires.

Three things we still have from paradise: the stars, the flowers and the children.

A lot of caution and equal prudence must be shown by men when dealing with those who not only see things, but also perceive what is thought.

There’s a gentle thought that sometimes makes me feel alive, because it’s a thought of you.

The greater the thirst, the greater the pleasure in satisfying it.

Everything that is created has an end in itself, and thus the form that makes the universe look like God is generated.

Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

Time passes and man does not notice.

I shed no tears, my heart was made of stone.

Oh, how insufficient is the word, and how ineffective to my concept!

The arrow of fate, when expected, travels slowly.

So now, close to me, came that brutality that knows no peace and took me step by step back to the place where the sun is silent.

He gave himself up so much to the vice of lust that in his law he made what gave pleasure lawful, in order to cancel the reproach he deserved.

I am one who writes only when love speaks to me and I try to faithfully report what it dictates within me.

Keep the steadfastness of the tower, whose peak does not shake by storms or winds.

In the depth of such suffering, the tongue moves in vain. The language of our memory and our senses lacks its own vocabulary for this pain.

Open your mind to what I reveal to you and retain well what I tell you, because it is not science to hear without retaining what you hear.

Laws exist, but who enforces them?

The path that leads to heaven begins in hell.

A will, even if it is good, must yield to a better one.

There is nothing to fear, nothing can deprive us of our destiny.

The fame you acquire in the world is nothing more than a breath of wind.