Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,Why fall ye thus before a little wind?

~ Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri Humanity

There is no greater sorrowthan thinking back upon a happy timein misery--

~ Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri Inferno Mistakes

Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power,supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter.

~ Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri Hell Inferno Stanley Lombardo Translation

For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Dante Alighieri Hell