Dante's hell quotes. Dante Alighieri - aphorisms, quotes, sayings. on other topics
Deception and force are the weapons of the evil ones.
Wisdom
The wisest person is the one who is most annoyed by the loss of time.
Torment
There is no greater torment than remembering a happy time.
Doubts
Doubt gives me no less pleasure than knowledge.
Compassion
Compassion is not a feeling; rather it is a noble disposition of the soul, ready to receive love, mercy and other virtuous feelings.
on other topics
The waters I am entering have never been crossed by anyone before.
Do not act against the deity of lovers: no matter what means you use, you will lose the battle, rest assured.
The hottest corners of hell are reserved for those who remained neutral during times of greatest moral crisis.
Follow your path and let people say whatever they want.
He suffers the highest torment who remembers joyful times in misfortune.
Often people float with the flow of time! Meanwhile, our fragile shuttle is equipped with a rudder; Why does a person rush along the waves, and not obey his own aspirations?
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
Compiled a selection quotes from the Italian poet and thinker Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321).
He is known as creator of the Divine Comedy and one of the founders of the literary Italian language.
Quotes summarized by topic: love, life ethics, good and evil, human manifestations, the divine, man, life, death, hell, mind, soul, knowledge, fame, money.
About love
Love moves the Sun and other stars.
Love motivates the soul to action.
Those who do not love, while loving, experience the most terrible torment.
Inspired by love, I say what it tells me.
The fire of good love will always ignite another, Flashing even in the form of a slave trace.
Do not act against the deity of lovers: no matter what means you use, you will lose the battle, rest assured.
I often thought, tired of grief, that it was not my fault that I was gloomy. He felt sorry for himself, burning as if on fire; He repeated: “A lover has never suffered like this!”
You are worthy of any treasure - Your voice has always sounded so pure, But whoever takes infidelity as a guide will not find any treasure.
Only dead love is alive in hell!
By the way, quotes about love
About life ethics
Follow your path and let other people say whatever they want.
No matter how life hits us, we will survive.
Don't be afraid of the darkness, no matter how scary it looks.
It is impossible for fear to command the mind; Otherwise, we move away from accomplishments.
Think about the fact that this day will never come again.
Everyone must take on his shoulders work commensurate with his strength, since if the weight of it accidentally turns out to be excessive, then he may involuntarily fall into the mud.
When a desire is fair, then one must silently follow it.
How you look determines what you see.
The wisest person is the one who is most annoyed by the loss of time.
About good and evil
The closer to perfection everyone becomes, the brighter the good and the more evil the evil.
There is no excuse when someone else does good for us.
Believe me, when we have no vile thoughts, We should not be afraid of anything. Evil to one's neighbor is where the source of troubles lies. It may throw one into the abyss.
Valor has disappeared in the human camp, As you said, there is no goodness in it at all, Cunning crushes the world in its trap.
We must keep the truth, which looks like a lie, with closed lips, otherwise you will innocently gain shame.
Not everything is false, which is incredible.
Deception and force are the tools of the evil ones.
About human manifestations
There is no greater torment than remembering happy days in misfortune.
Compassion is not a feeling; rather, it is a noble disposition of the soul, ready to receive love, mercy and other virtuous feelings.
The memory only remains true of the one who listened sensitively to everyone he met.
Deception, which is familiar to all hearts, Harms both those who trust and those who have not trusted in anything.
Oh mad wrath, oh blind self-interest, you torment our brief century terrestrial. And languish in eternity, torturing!
The hottest corners of hell are reserved for those who remained neutral during times of greatest moral crisis.
About the divine
Once you turn your back to the devil, you will see the path to God.
O God's might, what a righteous avenger you are, When you fight like this, without mercy!
The personification of the ideal, something divine, appearing from heaven to bestow on the earth a ray of heavenly bliss, the queen of virtue, clothed in modesty, radiant with beauty, she walks among praise, like an angel descended to earth to show the world the spectacle of her perfections. Her presence gives bliss and brings joy to hearts. Those who have not seen her cannot understand all the sweetness of her presence.
About a human
Every person is a friend to every other person by nature.
A person takes the goal away from himself, changing his thoughts every moment.
Often people float with the flow of time! Meanwhile, our fragile shuttle is equipped with a rudder; Why does a person rush along the waves, and not obey his own aspirations?
And if the whole world became corrupted, then the only reason for this was man himself: he alone is the source of troubles, he alone is the creator of his sorrows.
About life
Having gone halfway through my earthly life, I found myself in a dark forest, Having lost the right path in the darkness of the valley.
Having slipped out into the world, the soul flies lovingly, Like a girl who cries and laughs, Childishly, ruining her life with the first person she meets.
I was not dead, and I was not alive either; But you can judge alone; To be neither this nor that - what is it similar to.
About death
This is not why we live in this world, So that death finds us in blissful laziness!
Who can, leaving the world in tears, be sure that an eternal image is being sculpted, that his melancholy and trembling will remain in his memory for many years to come?
About hell
Abandon hope, everyone who enters here.
Hell is emptiness, a sad grave. Must living dead to help.
About the mind
There is that power that is called reason. And you are able to weigh good and evil on the scales.
Oh, wise ones, do not regret the powers of reason given to you, penetrating into the essence.
About the soul
The human soul is the greatest miracle of the world.
The souls of people, as in mirrors, are reflected in each other.
About knowledge
He who hesitates cannot gain knowledge.
Doubt gives me no less pleasure than knowledge.
About fame
But glory is like green tops: It is instantly devoured by slugs!
Oh glory! You are fragrant, but also transitory, like a flower!
About money
All the gold and all the wealth of light does not relieve people from worries.
Selfishness is artificial poverty.
About miscellaneous
I am sometimes praised, sometimes scolded, sometimes exalted, sometimes blasphemed.
The purpose of every virtue is to make our lives more joyful.
A millennium compared to eternity is a shorter period than the blink of an eye compared to the movement of the slowest celestial body, rotating in infinite space.
As often happens, according to the above quotes it is not so easy understand what exactly genius was Dante, as well as appreciate how he stood out among his contemporaries. Perhaps the following quotes about Dante are not very capable of helping us with this .
Quotes about Dante
- G. Boccaccio: Dante loved to retire, to live as a hermit, so that nothing would interrupt his thoughts, and if an entertaining thought occurred to him, then, no matter what company our poet was in and no matter what he was asked about, he answered only after thinking this thought out to the end , accepting it or rejecting it, and this happened during the hours of crowded meals, and during travel, and generally whenever.
- Voltaire: Dante's glory will be eternal because no one ever reads him. (by the way, quotes from Voltaire)
- F. Schelling: Dante takes revenge with prophetic power in his “Hell” on behalf of the Last Judgment as a recognized punishing judge, taking revenge not out of personal hatred, but with a pious soul, outraged by the abomination of the time being lived through. He softens the horror of the torment of the doomed with his own feeling of it; at the limits of so much lamentation, it so darkens his gaze that he is ready to cry.
- K. Batyushkov: Dante is a great poet, he speaks to the memory, the ear, the eyes, the mind, the imagination, the heart.
- A. Pushkin: The unified plan of Dante’s “Hell” is already the fruit of a high genius. (by the way, quotes from Pushkin)
- V. Belinsky: Dante was especially unlucky in Rus'; no one translated him and everyone talked less about him.
- V. Bryusov: Dante! Dante! But this is one of my favorite, if not the most favorite, poet among all!.. for the sake of translating Dante, I am ready to give up everything I do, even Libra. (by the way, quotes from Bryusov
Dante Alighieri, the great poet and thinker, harbinger of the Renaissance, was born in Florence in 1265. He came from a noble Roman family that participated in the founding of Florence. In his hometown, Dante received a basic education, and then continued his studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna. In Bologna, Dante met many poets of that time; he was strongly influenced by Guido Guinizelli, the founder of the so-called “sweet style” in poetry. The new style assumed the free expression of the poet’s feelings and experiences, the breadth of the use of words, and the general accessibility of the language of the new poetry.
Dante Alighieri was a poet, literary critic, theologian and political activist. He entered the history of world literature as the author of the monumental epic work “La divina commedia” (“The Divine Comedy”), which reflected a view from the point of view of Christian morality on the frail and short human life.
Having completed half my earthly life,
I found myself in a dark forest...
The souls of people, as in mirrors, are reflected in each other.
Follow your path and let other people say whatever they want.
Pride, greed, envy -
Here are three burning sparks in the hearts that never sleep.
Believe me, when we have no vile thoughts,
We shouldn't be afraid of anything.
Evil to one's neighbor is where the source of troubles lies,
It might throw you into the abyss.
A deception that is familiar to all hearts,
Brings harm to those who trust
And those who did not trust in anything.
It's time for you to find out
What appears at first when you rise?
Every mountain is always steep.
He who does not give up himself is invincible.
And if the whole world has become corrupted,
That was the only reason
The man himself: - only he is the source of troubles,
He is the only creator of his sorrows. 
After all, very often the haste of thoughts
It leads you down the wrong path recklessly;
And there addictions bind the mind.
Everyone had become so weak in their minds,
That people believe every lie
And the crowd would come to any promise.
We were not born for this,
To drag out a miserable existence,
But to the end we must pursue the truth
We strive for goodness and the light of knowledge!
“The Divine Comedy”, which is actually just “Comedy”, and which no one has read, but everyone knows that it’s about hell. Alas, the fate of the titans of the Renaissance in post-post modernity is unenviable! Everyone only remembers the name. But Dante Alighieri is truly a titan! He created Italian literature and several of the greatest works, and painted heaven and hell for all humanity. He led a political struggle for power in his native Florence, and then lived in exile for a long time.
Dante in exile. Frederic Leighton. 1864 
Created one of the most romantic love stories in human history.
Henry Holiday. Meeting of Dante and Beatrice. 
Rosetti. Meeting of Dante and Beatrice in Paradise 
This is one of the main embodiments of the images of the Creator and the Exile in world culture. The person most often depicted wearing a laurel wreath.
Fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1499-1502, Chapel of San Brizio
Dante's Amazing Memory
As an example of the amazing memory that Dante allegedly possessed, the following legend is told.
When Dante lived in Florence, he used to go in the evening to the square, then called Santa Reparata, and today Santa Maria del Fiore, to get some fresh air there.
One evening, a stranger approaches him and asks him a question:
- My lord, I have undertaken to give an answer and I don’t know how to do it.
I have to answer the following question: - What is the most delicious food?
Dante answered immediately: “Egg.”
A year later, when Dante was sitting on the same rubble, the same stranger approached him again and asked him:
- With what?
And Dante: - With salt.
Monument to Dante in Piazza Croce, Florence. 
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