Author: Dante Alighieri

Quotes

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

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

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

- Dante Alighieri

Small projects need much more help than great.

Small projects need much more help than great.

- Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

- Dante Alighieri

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

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

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

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

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

- Dante Alighieri

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