alighieri Quotes

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

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

“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.”

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

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

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”

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

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