In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe. Dante Alighieri More Quotes by Dante Alighieri More Quotes From Dante Alighieri Mankind is at its best when it is most free. Dante Alighieri mankind The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. Dante Alighieri men believe fall But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay. Dante Alighieri pain stars fall Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him. Dante Alighieri true-love self men ...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight. Dante Alighieri delight light desire O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge. Dante Alighieri judgment judging men Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things. Dante Alighieri my-love-for-you emptiness shadow As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew. Dante Alighieri light rose night There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. Dante Alighieri political done people Eternal love made me. Dante Alighieri eternal-love creation made I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath Dante Alighieri breaths dies lost Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath. Dante Alighieri peacemaker wrath blessed They yearn for what they fear for. Dante Alighieri inferno The devil is not as black as he is painted. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy devil black Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. Dante Alighieri flight reason desire At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. Dante Alighieri pain grief memories One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared. Dante Alighieri ought harm needs The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. Dante Alighieri treatment good-and-bad perfect For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. Dante Alighieri defense power evil Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water. Dante Alighieri quilts air lying
