Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
Quotes of Dante Alighieri:
1. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
2. There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
3. In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straightway was lost.
4. Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
5. You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.
6. Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
7. The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
8. 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.
9. The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
10. Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
By Shweta Tiwari
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