There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

— Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

— Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.

— Dante Alighieri

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

— Dante Alighieri

The secret of getting things done is to act!

— Dante Alighieri

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.

— Dante Alighieri

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

— Dante Alighieri

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

— Dante Alighieri

This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.

— Dante Alighieri

Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and headwear every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

— Dante Alighieri