Quotes by : Dante Alighieri

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame....

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents....

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

Haste denies all acts their dignity.

And he began, "What chance or destinyhas brought you here before your final day?And who is he who leads....

Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell;at first these....

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

I am the way into the city of woe,I am the way into eternal pain,I am the way to go among the lost.Justice....

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,have lead them through....