Dante Alighieri is a medieval Italian poet, great thinker and theologian. He is considered to be the one who laid the foundations of the literary Italian language.
During his life, Dante created many brilliant works that remain relevant to this day. One of his most famous creations is a poem called “The Divine Comedy,” quotes from which have become aphorisms and are familiar to many.
What is the quote “Abandon hope, ye who enter here”?
Dante's work can be divided into three main parts - "Hell", "Purgatory" and "Paradise". In The Divine Comedy, the author describes in detail how the afterlife works - the narration is in the first person and represents Dante’s journey through this world. The introductory part of the Comedy explains how he got there: Dante got lost in the forest and met the ancient Roman poet Virgil, who offered to descend into the afterlife. Later it becomes known that he was sent by Dante’s deceased lover.
This quote from The Divine Comedy is the final phrase from an inscription placed on the gates of hell - the place where sinners go after death.
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Song six
Circle Three - Cerberus - Gluttony
1 As soon as a clear mind returned to me, Which was unable to resist Before the sad vision and story, -
4 Already in the midst of new tortures I am again, Among new victims, wherever I turn, Wherever I look, wherever I stand.
7 I am in the third circle, where the rain flows, Cursed, eternal, heavy, icy; Always the same, it still lasts the same.
10 Heavy hail, and snow, and wet pus Permeate the impenetrable air; The earth stinks under a liquid veil.
13 The three-jawed Cerberus, [*] predatory and huge, barks like a dog at the people who are stuck in this stinking swamp.
16 His eyes are crimson, his belly is swollen, his beard is fat, his hands are clawed; He torments souls, tears skin and flesh.
19 And they howl like bitches in the rain; Trying to cover the bottom side with the top, They toss and turn in a frenzy of agony.
22 Seeing us, the vile worm opened his mouth as wide as he could. Cerberus, and there was no calm part in him from head to toe.
25 My leader bent down, stretching out his metacarpus, and, taking two full fists of earth, threw it into the voracious jaws.
28 Like a dog, who was barking for a piece, Falls silent, biting into the bone with greedy force, And is busy only with eating for now -
31 So the dirty-snouted demon Cerberus also fell silent, whose barking was so chilling to souls that deafness would seem sweet to them.
34 Between the ghosts that the Heavy Rain possessed, we walked forward, stepping on the emptiness that had the appearance of bodies.
37 A thick ridge of them lay flat, and only one, as soon as he noticed us, stood up and sat down, lifting his eyes at us.
40 “O you, who have been brought to this Hell,” he said, “you probably know me; You were already there when I left.”
43 And I: “You show such a pitiful appearance, That you seem a stranger in my eyes And you hardly remind me of anyone.
46 Tell me who you are, a victim of these evil and sorrowful places and hourly executions, Not more bitter, but more disgusting than all others.”
49 And he: “Your city, [*] of terrible envy So full that the kneading bowl is already cracking, Was mine once in a clear life.
52 The citizens nicknamed me Chacko [*]. Because I indulged in gluttony, I am rotting, groaning in the rain.
55 And, poor soul, I was not alone: they are all being punished here for the same sin.” His story was interrupted.
58 I said: “Chakko, tears are pressing on my chest with longing for your afterlife disaster. But I ask: tell me what they will come to
61 Warring in a small city; And whoever is righteous in him; and how is discord kindled in this much-maligned people?”
64 And he answered: “After long quarrels, blood will be shed and power will be delivered to the forest, And their enemies will be expelled and disgraced.
67 When the sun shows its face three times, They will fall, and the Hand of the one who is deceitful in our days will help them to rise.
70 They will crush them and they will know that they will again raise their foreheads for a long time, Judging the slain to cry and murmur. [*]
73 There are two righteous people, but they are not heeded. [*] Pride, envy, greed - these are three burning sparks in the hearts that never sleep.”
76 He fell silent at these sorrowful words. And I told him: “From the abyss of misfortune, give me a gift and be more generous in your speech.
79 Teggiayo, Farinata, mighty spirit, All those whose minds were rich in truth, Arrigo, Mosca or Rusticucci, -
82 Where are they all, I am glad to see them; My heart burns to know the fate of the most glorious: Are they being cherished by heaven or are they being poisoned by Hell?”
85 And he: “They are among the blackest souls: They are pulled down by the burden of sinful years; You can meet them in further circles. [*]
88 But I ask: returning to the sweet light, Remind people that I lived among them. Here is my last story and my answer."
91 Looking with eyes slanted from melancholy, He bent down and, his face melting, Prostrated himself among the other blind.
94 And the counselor said to me: “The rot here, He will not rise until the trumpet of the archangel [*]. When a hostile judge comes,
97 Each one will retreat to his mournful grave And, reincarnated in his former image, He will hear what will burst with eternal thunder.” [*]
100 We walked quietly through the mixed mud of shadows and rain, delving deeper into different judgments about eternal life.
103 I asked: “Teacher, their torment, According to the terrible sentence, how will it be stronger? Or will it be less, or will it remain unchanged?”
106 And he: “Your science says that the more perfect the nature in existence, the sweeter the bliss in it, and the more painful the pain.
109 Although the damned people living here cannot achieve direct perfection, a fuller existence awaits them in the future.” [*]
112 We walked around this path; I won’t take note of our entire conversation; And where the descent to the abyss began to lead,
115 Plutos, [*] the great enemy, stood up to meet us.
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Quote about striving for achievement
Despite the fact that Dante was a Catholic, a personal element intruded into his faith, which is also reflected in the work. This quote suggests that for the author, human qualities such as humility and submission (which in Christianity demonstrate true morality) are not virtues.
On the contrary, Dante Alighieri presents the reluctance to put up with circumstances, the desire to change them and discover something new as the ideal of human behavior. The author of The Divine Comedy believes that inquisitiveness encourages heroic achievements. Therefore, in his work he wrote the following line: “Whoever does not renew his strength in glory with victory will not taste the fruit obtained by him in the struggle.”
Quotes by Dante Alighieri
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
Compiled a selection of quotes from the Italian poet and thinker Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321).
He is known as the creator of the Divine Comedy and one of the founders of the literary Italian language.
Quotes are summarized by topic: love, life ethics, good and evil, human manifestations, the divine, man, life, death, hell, mind, soul, knowledge, fame, money.
About love
Love moves the Sun and other stars.
Love motivates the soul to action.
Those who do not love, while loving, experience the most terrible torment.
Inspired by love, I say what it tells me.
The fire of good love will always ignite another, Flashing even in the form of a slave trace.
Do not act against the deity of lovers: no matter what means you use, you will lose the battle, rest assured.
I often thought, tired of grief, that it was not my fault that I was gloomy. He felt sorry for himself, burning as if on fire; He repeated: “A lover has never suffered like this!”
You are worthy of any treasure - Your voice has always sounded so pure, But whoever takes infidelity as a guide will not find any treasure.
Only dead love is alive in hell!
By the way, quotes about love
About life ethics
Follow your path and let other people say whatever they want.
No matter how life hits us, we will survive.
Don't be afraid of the darkness, no matter how scary it looks.
It is impossible for fear to command the mind; Otherwise, we move away from accomplishments.
Think about the fact that this day will never come again.
Everyone must take on his shoulders work commensurate with his strength, since if the weight of it accidentally turns out to be excessive, then he may involuntarily fall into the mud.
When a desire is fair, then one must silently follow it.
How you look determines what you see.
The wisest person is the one who is most annoyed by the loss of time.
About good and evil
The closer to perfection everyone becomes, the brighter the good and the more evil the evil.
There is no excuse when someone else does good for us.
Believe me, when we have no vile thoughts, We should not be afraid of anything. Evil to one's neighbor is where the source of troubles lies. It may throw one into the abyss.
Valor has disappeared in the human camp, As you said, there is no goodness in it at all, Cunning crushes the world in its trap.
We must keep the truth, which looks like a lie, with closed lips, otherwise you will innocently gain shame.
Not everything is false, which is incredible.
Deception and force are the tools of the evil ones.
By the way, quotes about good and quotes about evil
About human manifestations
There is no greater torment than remembering happy days in misfortune.
Compassion is not a feeling; rather, it is a noble disposition of the soul, ready to receive love, mercy and other virtuous feelings.
The memory only remains true of the one who listened sensitively to everyone he met.
Deception, which is familiar to all hearts, Harms both those who trust and those who have not trusted in anything.
O insane anger, O blind self-interest, You torment our short earthly age. And languish in eternity, torturing!
The hottest corners of hell are reserved for those who remained neutral during times of greatest moral crisis.
About the divine
Once you turn your back to the devil, you will see the path to God.
O God's might, what a righteous avenger you are, When you fight like this, without mercy!
The personification of the ideal, something divine, appearing from heaven to bestow on the earth a ray of heavenly bliss, the queen of virtue, clothed in modesty, radiant with beauty, she walks among praise, like an angel descended to earth to show the world the spectacle of her perfections. Her presence gives bliss and brings joy to hearts. Those who have not seen her cannot understand all the sweetness of her presence.
About a human
Every person is a friend to every other person by nature.
A person takes the goal away from himself, changing his thoughts every moment.
Often people float with the flow of time! Meanwhile, our fragile shuttle is equipped with a rudder; Why does a person rush along the waves, and not obey his own aspirations?
And if the whole world became corrupted, then the only reason for this was man himself: he alone is the source of troubles, he alone is the creator of his sorrows.
By the way, quotes about a person
About life
Having gone halfway through my earthly life, I found myself in a dark forest, Having lost the right path in the darkness of the valley.
Having slipped out into the world, the soul flies lovingly, Like a girl who cries and laughs, Childishly, ruining her life with the first person she meets.
I was not dead, and I was not alive either; But you can judge alone; To be neither this nor that - what is it similar to.
By the way, quotes about life
About death
This is not why we live in this world, So that death finds us in blissful laziness!
Who can, leaving the world in tears, be sure that an eternal image is being sculpted, that his melancholy and trembling will remain in his memory for many years to come?
About hell
Abandon hope, everyone who enters here.
Hell is emptiness, a sad grave. The living must help the dead.
About the mind
There is that power that is called reason. And you are able to weigh good and evil on the scales.
Oh, wise ones, do not regret the powers of reason given to you, penetrating into the essence.
By the way, quotes about the mind
About the soul
The human soul is the greatest miracle of the world.
The souls of people, as in mirrors, are reflected in each other.
By the way, quotes about the soul
About knowledge
He who hesitates cannot gain knowledge.
Doubt gives me no less pleasure than knowledge.
About fame
But glory is like green tops: It is instantly devoured by slugs!
Oh glory! You are fragrant, but also transitory, like a flower!
About money
All the gold and all the wealth of light does not relieve people from worries.
Selfishness is artificial poverty.
By the way, quotes about money
About miscellaneous
I am sometimes praised, sometimes scolded, sometimes exalted, sometimes blasphemed.
The purpose of every virtue is to make our lives more joyful.
A millennium compared to eternity is a shorter period than the blink of an eye compared to the movement of the slowest celestial body rotating in infinite space.
As is often the case, from the above quotes it is not so easy to understand what exactly Dante’s genius was, nor to assess how much he stood out among his contemporaries. Perhaps the quotes below about Dante are not very capable of helping us with this .
Quotes about Dante
- G. Boccaccio: Dante loved to retire, to live as a hermit, so that nothing would interrupt his thoughts, and if an entertaining thought came to his mind, then, no matter what company our poet was in and no matter what he was asked about, he would answer only after thinking it through this thought to the end, accepting it or rejecting it, and this happened during the hours of crowded meals, and during travel, and generally whenever.
- Voltaire: Dante's glory will be eternal because no one ever reads him. (by the way, quotes from Voltaire)
- F. Schelling: Dante takes revenge with prophetic power in his “Hell” on behalf of the Last Judgment as a recognized punishing judge, takes revenge not out of personal hatred, but with a pious soul, outraged by the abomination of the time being experienced. He softens the horror of the torment of the doomed with his own feeling of it; at the limits of so much lamentation, it so darkens his gaze that he is ready to cry.
- K. Batyushkov: Dante is a great poet, he speaks to the memory, ear, eyes, reason, imagination, heart.
- A. Pushkin: The unified plan of Dante’s “Hell” is already the fruit of a high genius. (by the way, quotes from Pushkin)
- V. Belinsky: Dante was especially unlucky in Russia; no one translated him and everyone talked less about him.
- V. Bryusov: Dante! Dante! But this is one of my favorite, if not the most favorite, poet among all!.. for the sake of translating Dante, I am ready to give up everything I do, even Libra. (by the way, quotes from Bryusov)
- A. Blok: Art is Hell. No wonder V. Bryusov bequeathed to the artist: “Like Dante, the underground flame should burn your cheeks.” Through the countless circles of Hell, only one who has a companion, a teacher and a guiding dream of the One who will lead where even the teacher does not dare to go can pass through the countless circles of Hell without dying. (by the way, quotes from Blok)
- N. Gumilyov: There lived a restless artist
- In a world of crafty guises,
- Sinner, libertine, atheist,
- But he loved Beatrice.
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