Dante Alighieri: THE BEST quotes and aphorisms that are worth listening to

The path to paradise begins in hell. Do not be afraid, our fate cannot be taken from us, it is a gift. The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. The devil is not as black as he is painted. Love insists the loved loves back. He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. There is no greater sorrow than to recall our times of joy in wretchedness. Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air or ripples on a stream. There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. Lost are we and are only so far punished that without hope we live on in desire. Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. One ought to be afraid of nothing other than things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innocuous need not be feared. There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time when miserable. Beauty awakens the soul to act. They yearn for what they fear for. Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. Love, that moves the sun and the other stars. No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. Thus, you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone. Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words. Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery. Faith is the substance of the things we hope for, and evidence of those that are not seen. If the present world goes astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. If a man does not fall asleep immediately after sex, then maybe, it's time for him to go home to his wife. Midway along the journey of our life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.