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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."

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

— Dante Alighieri

Politics

All Quotes by Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

Knowledge

“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

“Nature is the art of God.”

— Dante Alighieri

Art

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

— Dante Alighieri

Happiness

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

— Dante Alighieri

Politics

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”

— Dante Alighieri

Hope

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

— Dante Alighieri

Men

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

— Dante Alighieri

History

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

— Dante Alighieri

Beauty

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

— Dante Alighieri

Beauty

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

— Dante Alighieri

Change

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

— Dante Alighieri

Politics

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

— Dante Alighieri

Sad