Dante Alighieri Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprendeprese costui de la bella personache mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona...""Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,Seized him with my beautiful formThat was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,took me so strongly with delight in himThat, as you see, it still abandons me not... Inferno: A New Verse Translation

2. Justice incited my sublime Creator;Created me divine Omnipotence,The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.Before me there were no created things,Only eterne, and I eternal last. The Divine Comedy

3. L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. The Divine Comedy

4. Love, that moves the sun and the other stars Paradiso

5. The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

6. From a little spark may burst a flame. Paradiso

7. Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde The Divine Comedy of Volume 2: Purgatorio

8. Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain. Inferno

9. The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

10. There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery The Divine Comedy

11. Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state,perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and herewere every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing. The Divine Comedy