Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
Author
Intellectual
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Dante
Durante degli Alighieri
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
Fault
Bitter
Faults
Thee
Conscience
Stainless
Christianity
Sting
Littles
Upright
Little
Bitterness
More quotes by Dante Alighieri
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
In each fire there is a spirit Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.
Dante Alighieri
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
Dante Alighieri
He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
Dante Alighieri
To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
Dante Alighieri
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
Dante Alighieri
When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon
Dante Alighieri
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
Dante Alighieri
These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.
Dante Alighieri
In His will, our peace.
Dante Alighieri
From a small spark, Great flame has risen.
Dante Alighieri
O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
Dante Alighieri
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
Dante Alighieri
Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
Dante Alighieri
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
Dante Alighieri
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
Eternal love made me.
Dante Alighieri
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
Dante Alighieri
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
Dante Alighieri
It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
Dante Alighieri