1. The devil is not as black as he is painted. ~ Dante Alighieri
2. There is a gentle thought that sometimes makes me feel alive, because it is a thought of you. ~ Dante Alighieri
3. With wine poetry flourishes in the hearts of men. ~ Dante Alighieri
4. For the one who makes my veins and my pulse tremble. ~ Dante Alighieri
5. The sad souls of those who lived without fault and without praise. ~ Dante Alighieri
6. 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. ~ Dante Alighieri
7. Up, down, here and there it leads them; and no hope comforts them, no rest, more than less sorrow. ~ Dante Alighieri
8. The best gift that God has given in his abundance was the autonomy of the will. ~ Dante Alighieri
9. The arrow of destiny, when expected, travels slowly. ~ Dante Alighieri
10. The truth that seems like a lie should keep quiet while he can, because without being guilty, he is ashamed. ~ Dante Alighieri
11. There is no way you can separate heat from fire or beauty from the eternal. ~ Dante Alighieri
12. It was the morning hour, when the sun took its place above the stars that shine with it, when the love of God himself first established the just movement of things. ~ Dante Alighieri
13. Quickly love is born towards that heart that is gentle. ~ Dante Alighieri
14. I can well see that you nest in your own light, and that you give it off through your eyes, because when you laugh they shine; but not who you are, nor why you find yourself, dignified soul, in the degree of the sphere that other rays hide from men. ~ Dante Alighieri
15. Nobody thinks about the amount of blood it costs. ~ Dante Alighieri
16. My hope is that we will not be able to see the sky anymore. I have come to guide you to the other shore, to eternal darkness, in fire and ice. ~ Dante Alighieri
17. Oh, human race, born to fly, how then can a little breeze of wind make you fall? ~ Dante Alighieri
18. Open your mind to what I manifest to you and hold it within; that science is not done, without retention of what has been understood. ~ Dante Alighieri
19. But you make a religious man who was born to gird a sword, and you make a king who likes sermons; and so your route is lost. ~ Dante Alighieri
20. Good is the domain of love, since it turns the understanding of its servants away from all vile things. ~ Dante Alighieri
21. 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 distance? ~ Dante Alighieri
22. Enter, but I warn you that he who looks behind returns outside. ~ Dante Alighieri
23. Now, our minds are like smoke, but soon they will be like fire. ~ Dante Alighieri
24. Your apprehension makes illusions true, which incite desire, and the mood seduces pleasant. ~ Dante Alighieri
25. It is known that the ardent flame of love lasts a short time in a woman, when her looks and hands are unable to fan it continuously. ~ Dante Alighieri
26. Love insists that love return from the beloved. ~ Dante Alighieri
27. Love beauty for delight, and virtue, for sovereign highness. ~ Dante Alighieri
28. We are not going to talk about them; rather watch and move on. ~ Dante Alighieri
29. Everything in her was always so bright that no one, sighing sweetly, will be able to forget her captivating grace. ~ Dante Alighieri
30. We are lost and only half punished. ~ Dante Alighieri
31. She speaks briefly and clearly. ~ Dante Alighieri
32. The human race reaches its best state, the more freedom it has. ~ Dante Alighieri
33. High fantasy lacks strength; but already my will and my desire turned like wheels driven by the one who moves the sun and the stars. ~ Dante Alighieri
34. I am the way to the city of affliction, I am the way to eternal pain, I am the way to go among the lost. ~ Dante Alighieri
35. So much honor your fortune reserves you, that one part and the other will be hungry for you. ~ Dante Alighieri
36. Love, which does not absolve anyone loved from loving, seized me so strongly with its charm that, as you can see, it has not left me yet. ~ Dante Alighieri
37. In the center of the Universe, at the furthest point from God, among the ice that surrounds the shadows, is Lucifer, emperor of the kingdom of pain, pulling half his body out of the glacial surface. ~ Dante Alighieri
38. There is nothing to fear, nothing can deprive us of our destiny, it is a gift. ~ Dante Alighieri
39. They yearn for what they fear. ~ Dante Alighieri
40. My route has been established over an unexplored sea. ~ Dante Alighieri
41. All hope is abandoned by those who enter here. ~ Dante Alighieri
42. I did not shed tears, my heart was made of stone. ~ Dante Alighieri
43. The rigid justice that hurts me makes use of the place where I sinned, so that it puts more sighs to flight. ~ Dante Alighieri
44. So honest and so gentle does my lady look, when I greet her, she surrenders herself, that she makes all tongues tremble and remain silent, and not even her eyes dare to look at her. ~ Dante Alighieri
45. The wheels of heaven on high, unfold for you the eternal glories of her, yet your eyes continue to rest on the earth. ~ Dante Alighieri
46. He who listens well, takes notes. ~ Dante Alighieri
47. You will know by experience how salty someone else’s bread is, and how sad it is to go up and down the stairs in someone else’s apartment. ~ Dante Alighieri
48. Art, to the extent of its possibilities, follows nature, just as a pupil imitates his teacher; so must your art be. Granddaughter of God ~ Dante Alighieri
49. Through me, you will visit the city of tears, through me, you will enter eternal pain, through me, you will walk among the lost people. ~ Dante Alighieri
50. You were not raised to live like beasts, but to pursue virtue and wisdom. ~ Dante Alighieri
51. Beauty awakens the acts of the soul. ~ Dante Alighieri
52. That precious fruit for which men undertake an anxious search in different couples, will be given today to your hungry soul. ~ Dante Alighieri
53. In the middle of the path of our life, I found myself on a piece of wood, lost outside the straight path. ~ Dante Alighieri
54. It is so bitter, and death is a little more. ~ Dante Alighieri
55. The weapons of divine justice lose their edge before the confession and regret of the delinquent. ~ Dante Alighieri
56. Open your mind to what I am going to reveal to you, and retain it inside: he who listens, but does not retain what he has heard, does not learn anything. ~ Dante Alighieri
57. Maintain the firmness of the tower, whose top does not tremble neither by storms nor by winds. ~ Dante Alighieri
58. There was a time when we used to be men, although now we have become trees. ~ Dante Alighieri
59. The most perfect things are also the most likely to receive both appreciation and mistreatment. ~ Dante Alighieri
60. A powerful fire is just the continuation of a small spark. ~ Dante Alighieri
61. Pride, envy and greed. These are the sparks that have set fire to the hearts of all men. ~ Dante Alighieri
62. The path that leads to Paradise begins in Hell. ~ Dante Alighieri
63. If you, free as you are, have remained here below; it is unlikely that even a living flame will continue to burn above. ~ Dante Alighieri
64. The greater the strength and the better the free nature you are subject to; and she raises your mind, in which heaven can do nothing. ~ Dante Alighieri
65. Without you having uttered it, I have better understood your desire, than you any true thing; because I see her in the truthful mirror that makes a reflection of herself in other things, but the others in it are not reflected. ~ Dante Alighieri
66. After your damages will come the crying caused by the just punishment. ~ Dante Alighieri
67. Who knows pain, knows everything. ~ Dante Alighieri
68. At the peak moment, the ability that gives me the ability to describe fails. ~ Dante Alighieri
69. In his will lies our peace. ~ Dante Alighieri
70. Old fame in the world calls the blind, people are greedy, envious and arrogant: always get rid of their customs. ~ Dante Alighieri
71. Aristotle is the teacher of all those who know. ~ Dante Alighieri
72. Lust can occupy a place that can be forgiven when you are on the path of learning to love. ~ Dante Alighieri
73. Don’t be stopped by fear, as much as it might, it won’t stop you from going down this rock. ~ Dante Alighieri
74. Your fame is like the flower, which as soon as it sprouts, dies, and is withered by the same sun that gave birth to it from the ungrateful earth. ~ Dante Alighieri
75. To whom much is given, much is expected of him. ~ Dante Alighieri
76. Now you, you already know how much my love for you burns deep inside me, when forgetting our emptiness, I face shadows and solid things. ~ Dante Alighieri
77. Overcome laziness with courage that wins any fight, if with the serious body it does not prevent it. ~ Dante Alighieri
78. 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. ~ Dante Alighieri
79. Whoever paints there has no one to guide him, but a guide, and from him originates the virtue that gives the nests their shape. ~ Dante Alighieri
80. The wiser you get, the more annoying it is to waste your time. ~ Dante Alighieri
