Author: Dante Alighieri

Quotes

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

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

- Dante Alighieri

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.

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

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

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

- Dante Alighieri

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

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

- Dante Alighieri

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

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

- Dante Alighieri

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

- Dante Alighieri

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

- Dante Alighieri

I love to doubt as well as know.

I love to doubt as well as know.

- Dante Alighieri

Nature is the art of God.

Nature is the art of God.

- Dante Alighieri

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