Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Must
Saying
Grasp
Mind
Liberty
Principle
Choices
Basic
Clear
Lips
Freedom
Minds
Free
Choice
Best
Mankind
Recall
Many
Principles
Recalls

More quotes by Dante Alighieri

Image
I found myself within a forest dark.
Dante Alighieri
Image
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri
Image
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
Dante Alighieri
Image
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.
Dante Alighieri
Image
Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
Dante Alighieri
Image
He is not always at ease who laughs.
Dante Alighieri
Image
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate and God's will and ours are one.
Dante Alighieri
Image
Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
Dante Alighieri
Image
If you follow your natural bentyou will definitely go to heaven
Dante Alighieri
Image
Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.
Dante Alighieri
Image
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
Dante Alighieri
Image
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
Dante Alighieri
Image
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
Dante Alighieri
Image
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
Dante Alighieri
Image
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
Dante Alighieri
Image
In each fire there is a spirit Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.
Dante Alighieri
Image
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
Dante Alighieri
Image
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri
Image
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
Dante Alighieri
Image
Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
Dante Alighieri