Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos int…

Dante Alighieri
159 citations
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
Hope
25

More Author Quotes

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.
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the … ▶
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intellig … ▶
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? ✨ Dante Alighieri (1919). The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle (and thence we came forth to see again the stars) ✨ Divina Commedia Inferno canto 34, l. 139 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

Most Cited Authors

27

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

27

Curated Author Quotes

82 Unforgettable 🦇 Batman Quotes