"The Divine Comedy" Quotes
A journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, where Dante is guided by the poet Virgil and his beloved Beatrice.
classics | 928 pages | Published in 2003
Quotes
Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Love, which quickly kindles, is a flame that soon is spent.
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.
In His will is our peace.
Consider your seed; you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.
The arrow seen before cometh less rudely.
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
