1. “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.” – Dante Alighieri
2. “The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.” – Dante Alighieri
3. “A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.” – Dante Alighieri
4. “I, if on this voyage then I venture, fear it will in folly end.” – Dante Alighieri
5. “Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds.” – Dante Alighieri
6. “Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.” – Dante Alighieri
7. “Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.” – Dante Alighieri
8. “And we came forth to contemplate the stars.” – Dante Alighieri
9. “So may heaven’s grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.” – Dante Alighieri
10. “He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.” – Dante Alighieri
11. “Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.” – Dante Alighieri
12. “And my Guide to me: “He will not wake again until the angel trumpet sounds the day on which the host shall come to judge all men.” – Dante Alighieri
13. “I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.” – Dante Alighieri
14. “Beauty awakens the soul to act.” – Dante Alighieri
15. “For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.” – Dante Alighieri
16. “Turn back and seek the safety of the shore; tempt not the deep, lest, losing unawares me and yourselves, you come to port no more.” – Dante Alighieri
17. “He is not always at ease who laughs.” – Dante Alighieri
18. “These have not the hope to die.” – Dante Alighieri
19. “Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.” – Dante Alighieri
20. “Love rules me. It determines what I ask.” – Dante Alighieri
21. “When virtue lights in us 11 a fire of love, that love ignites another within the soul that sees its burning.” – Dante Alighieri
22. “Wisdom is earned, not given” – Dante Alighieri
23. “The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.” – Dante Alighieri
24. “Nobility is the perfection in each thing of its proper nature.” – Dante Alighieri
25. “As puffed out sails fall when the mast gives way and flutter to a self-convulsing heap – so collapsed Plutus into that dead clay.” – Dante Alighieri
26. “But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.” – Dante Alighieri
27. “We were still some way from it, but not so far that I failed to discern in part what noble people occupied that place.” – Dante Alighieri
28. “Three dispositions adverse to Heaven’s still, – Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.” – Dante Alighieri
29. “He listens well who takes notes.” – Dante Alighieri
30. “Through me you go to the grief wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest Power, of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love. Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings. And I endure eternally. Surrender as you enter, every hope you have.” – Dante Alighieri
31. “No one thinks of how much blood it costs.” – Dante Alighieri
32. “Haste denies all acts their dignity.” – Dante Alighieri
33. “What blind cupidity, what crazy rage impels us onwards in our little lives – then dunks us in this stew to all eternity!” – Dante Alighieri
34. “Nature is the art of God” – Dante Alighieri
35. “The book and writer both Were love’s purveyors.” – Dante Alighieri
36. “Like someone who has imperfect vision, we see things, which are remote from us; so much light the Supreme Ruler still gives to us; when they draw nigh, or are, our intellect is altogether void; and except what others bring us, we know nothing of your human state.” – Dante Alighieri
37. “Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.” – Dante Alighieri
38. “Honor is the greatest poet.” – Dante Alighieri
39. “Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.” – Dante Alighieri
40. “I by not doing, not by doing, lost.” – Dante Alighieri
41. “Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.” – Dante Alighieri
42. “One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.” – Dante Alighieri
43. “The moon, with midnight now behind us, made the stars seem scarcer to us; it was shaped just like a copper basin, gleaming, new.” – Dante Alighieri
44. “If you give people light, they will find their own way.” – Dante Alighieri
45. “No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.” – Dante Alighieri
46. “O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!” – Dante Alighieri
47. “Abandon every hope, you who enter.” – Dante Alighieri
48. “How cautious we must always be when faced with those who, far beyond observing deeds, can gaze in wisdom on our very thoughts.” – Dante Alighieri
49. “At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.” – Dante Alighieri
50. “Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.” – Dante Alighieri
51. “Anyone who reads the original will wonder at times if this is really “poetry.” Very well, then, let it be prose, if one insists on folly.” – Dante Alighieri
52. “These are the radiancies of the perfected vision that sees the good and step by step moves nearer what it sees.” – Dante Alighieri
53. “Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.” – Dante Alighieri
54. “I learnt that the carnal sinners are condemned to these torments, they who subject their reason to their lust.” – Dante Alighieri
55. “Before me nothing was created but eternal things and I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye that enter.” – Dante Alighieri
56. “Knowledge comes Of learning well retain’d, unfruitful else.” – Dante Alighieri
57. “We forget what we have heard if we do not write it down.” – Dante Alighieri
58. “Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.” – Dante Alighieri
59. “The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.” – Dante Alighieri
60. “I’m beginning to think I’ve got rotten luck with women.” – Dante Alighieri
61. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” – Dante Alighieri
62. “They yearn for what they fear for.” – Dante Alighieri
63. “I had set foot in that part of life beyond which one cannot go with any hope of returning.” – Dante Alighieri
64. “If your world isn’t right, the cause is in you.” – Dante Alighieri
65. “Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.” – Dante Alighieri
66. “You taught me how a man becomes eternal;.” – Dante Alighieri
67. “Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.” – Dante Alighieri
68. “The experience of this sweet life.” – Dante Alighieri
69. “As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.” – Dante Alighieri
70. “The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.” – Dante Alighieri
71. “Remember tonight for it’s the beginning of forever.” – Dante Alighieri
72. “Follow your own star! Follow your path, and let the people talk.” – Dante Alighieri
73. “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.” – Dante Alighieri
74. “Less shame a greater fault would palliate.” – Dante Alighieri
75. “Let us go, for the length of our journey demands it.” – Dante Alighieri
76. “Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.” – Dante Alighieri
77. “Follow your constellation and you cannot fail to reach your port of glory.” – Dante Alighieri
78. “And he, my strength, swung straight around to say: ‘Why so dismayed and faithless? Don’t you know that I am with you and still guide your steps?” – Dante Alighieri
79. “Infinite goodness has such wide arms.” – Dante Alighieri
80. “The devil is not as black as he is painted.” – Dante Alighieri
81. “And to a place I come where nothing shines.” – Dante Alighieri
82. ″‘An ill way thou goest!‘” – Dante Alighieri
83. “Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ” – Dante Alighieri
84. “Deed done is well begun.” – Dante Alighieri
85. “Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.” – Dante Alighieri
86. “Look hard, all you whose minds are sound and sane, and wonder at the meaning lying veiled beyond the curtain of this alien verse.” – Dante Alighieri
87. “Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.” – Dante Alighieri
88. “I found myself within a forest dark,” – Dante Alighieri
89. “It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do.” – Dante Alighieri
90. “Hell exists from within.” – Dante Alighieri
91. “For when the powers of working intellect are wed to strength and absolute illwill, then humans cannot find a place to hide.” – Dante Alighieri
92. “In that part of the young year when the sun begins to warm its locks beneath Aquarius and nights grow shorter…” – Dante Alighieri
93. “In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.” – Dante Alighieri
94. “Love can move the Sun and the stars.” – Dante Alighieri
95. “The path to paradise begins in hell.” – Dante Alighieri
96. “Without hope we live in desire.” – Dante Alighieri
97. “Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always” – Dante Alighieri
98. “This writing is of bone and sinew.” – Dante Alighieri
99. “Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” – Dante Alighieri
100. “Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.” – Dante Alighieri
101. “He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first.” – Dante Alighieri
102. “Like the pages of a book soaked shut by time.” – Dante Alighieri
103. “Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.” – Dante Alighieri
104. “Great flames are kindled where the small sparks fly.” – Dante Alighieri
105. “Amor condusse noi ad una morte.” – Dante Alighieri
106. “No one, while hope shows any hint of green, is lost beyond return to love eternal merely because the Church has voiced its curse.” – Dante Alighieri
107. “The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.” – Dante Alighieri
108. “Eternal fire, That inward burns, shows them with ruddy flame Illum’d.” – Dante Alighieri
109. “My course is set for an uncharted sea.” – Dante Alighieri
110. “Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.” – Dante Alighieri
111. “A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.” – Dante Alighieri
112. “Here pity only lives when it is dead – Virgil” – Dante Alighieri
113. “The Comedy is a glorification of the ways of God, but it is also a sharp and great-minded protest at the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan.” – Dante Alighieri
114. “Await no further word or sign from me: your will is free, erect, and whole – to act against that will would be to err: therefore I crown and miter you over yourself.” – Dante Alighieri
115. “No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when mis’ry is at hand!” – Dante Alighieri
116. “And you will taste the saltiness of bread when offered by another’s hand – as, too, how hard it is to climb a stranger’s stair.” – Dante Alighieri
117. “We were men once, though we’ve become trees” – Dante Alighieri
118. “I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.” – Dante Alighieri
119. “Those things that have the power to hurt are to be feared: not those other things that are not fearful. I am made such, by God’s grace, that your suffering does not touch me, nor does the fire of this burning scorch me.” – Dante Alighieri
120. “English “broadcast” once meant specifically “a way of sowing” and was borrowed by radio as an analogy.” – Dante Alighieri
121. “The more perfect a thing the more it feels good and evil.” – Dante Alighieri
122. “Oh, how long Me seems it, ere the promis’d help arrive!” – Dante Alighieri
123. “All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.” – Dante Alighieri
124. “Though ne’er to true perfection may arrive This race accurs’d, yet nearer then than now They shall approach it.” – Dante Alighieri
125. “I hope for your sake you’ve got something inside that big body of yours!” – Dante Alighieri
126. “The secret of getting things done is to act!” – Dante Alighieri
127. “Midway upon the journey of our life.” – Dante Alighieri
128. “The love that moves the sun and the other stars.” – Dante Alighieri
129. “Heaven’s justice goads them on, that fear Is turn’d into desire.” – Dante Alighieri
130. “Small projects need much more help than great.” – Dante Alighieri
131. “No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.” – Dante Alighieri
132. “Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.” – Dante Alighieri
133. “Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!” – Dante Alighieri
134. “I made a gallows of my house.” – Dante Alighieri
135. “The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.” – Dante Alighieri
136. “I wept not, so to stone within I grew.” – Dante Alighieri
137. “The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.” – Dante Alighieri
138. “I made my own house be my gallows.” – Dante Alighieri
139. “A fight every now and again does make life more interesting. Don’t ya think?” – Dante Alighieri
140. “Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people” – Dante Alighieri
141. “If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.” – Dante Alighieri
142. “Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” – Dante Alighieri
143. “She by her nature is cruel, so vicious she never can sate her voracious will, but, feasting well, is hungrier than before.” – Dante Alighieri
144. “Eternal love made me.” – Dante Alighieri
145. “Let not thy fear Harm thee, for power in him, be sure, is none To hinder down this rock thy safe descent.” – Dante Alighieri
146. “Go right on and listen as thou goest.” – Dante Alighieri
147. “In this place piety lives where pity is dead.” – Dante Alighieri
148. “All of nature is God’s art.” – Dante Alighieri
149. “There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.” – Dante Alighieri
150. “the Love that moves the sun and all the other stars.” – Dante Alighieri
151. “Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.” – Dante Alighieri
152. “How did you get yourself in such a pickle?” – Dante Alighieri
153. “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” – Dante Alighieri
154. “My senses down, when the true.” – Dante Alighieri
155. “Consider the sea’s listless chime: Time’s self it is, made audible.” – Dante Alighieri
156. “Astrology, the noblest of sciences.” – Dante Alighieri
157. “Still desiring, we live without hope.” – Dante Alighieri
158. “So that their fear is turned into desire.” – Dante Alighieri
159. “Love insists the loved loves back” – Dante Alighieri
160. “Names are the consequences of things.” – Dante Alighieri
161. “Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.” – Dante Alighieri
162. “He who know most grieves most for wasted time.” – Dante Alighieri
163. “That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.” – Dante Alighieri
164. “Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.” – Dante Alighieri
165. “The blank-verse paragraph in English, as nearly as I can determine, runs to an average of about fourteen lines.” – Dante Alighieri
166. “We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.” – Dante Alighieri
167. “What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?” – Dante Alighieri
168. “Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can’t go on together, let’s retrace our steps as quickly as we can.” – Dante Alighieri
169. “We all so willingly record our gains, until the hour that leads us into loss. Then every single thought is tears and sadness.” – Dante Alighieri
170. “The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.” – Dante Alighieri
171. “Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!” – Dante Alighieri
172. “Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.” – Dante Alighieri
173. “Follow your path, and let the people talk.” – Dante Alighieri
174. “If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.” – Dante Alighieri
175. “Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow” – Dante Alighieri
176. “You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.” – Dante Alighieri
177. “Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.” – Dante Alighieri
178. “I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.” – Dante Alighieri
179. “As mating doves that love calls to their nest glide through the air with motionless raised wings, borne by the sweet desire that fills each breast – Just so those spirits turned on the torn sky from the band where Dido whirls across the air; such was.” – Dante Alighieri