Alighieri, Dante (1265 – 1321), Italian national epic poet
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
He listens well who takes notes.
A great flame follows a little spark.
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. The Divine Comedy
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. The Divine Comedy
All hope abandon, ye who enter here! The Divine Comedy
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. The Divine Comedy
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
