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Dante Alighieri

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What we know about Dante Alighieri comes primarily from their words — and those words are worth your time. Their thinking spans from Politics to Nature, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 16 quotes from Dante Alighieri, each offering a different angle on Politics, Nature, Beauty, Art, and Sympathy. As Dante Alighieri put it: "Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

“Nature is the art of God.”

— Dante Alighieri

Art

All Quotes by Dante Alighieri

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

— Dante Alighieri

Beauty

“The secret of getting things done is to act!”

— Dante Alighieri

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.”

— Dante Alighieri

Art

“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.”

— Dante Alighieri

Men

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”

— Dante Alighieri

Hope

“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.”

— Dante Alighieri

Beauty

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”

— Dante Alighieri

Politics

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”

— Dante Alighieri

Happiness

“Nature is the art of God.”

— Dante Alighieri

Art

“The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.”

— Dante Alighieri

Sad

“Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”

— Dante Alighieri

History

“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

— Dante Alighieri

Knowledge

“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.”

— Dante Alighieri

Change