Dante Alighieri citáty

36 podmanivých slov o přírodě a lidské duši

„Žádná bolest se nesnáší hůř než vzpomínky na štěstí v době neštěstí.“

„Málo miluje ten, kdo ještě slovy musí vyjádřit, jak velice miluje.“

„Nejkrásnější věc, kterou Bůh stvořil, je žena a růže.“

„Být churav láskou - to je důvod zemřít.“

„Málo miluje, kdo umí slovy vyjádřit, jak moc miluje.“

„Němé díky za svou lásku je přesvědčivější než krásná slova a velké dary.“

„Jak dlouho zůstaneme mladí? Tak dlouho, dokud jsme milovaní.“

„Láska opanovala mou duši, která se s ní zasnoubila tak rychle a počala silou, kterou jí dávala má obrazotvornost nabývat nade mnou takové jistoty, že jsem musel bez výjimky plnit všechna její přání.“

„Mnou vchází se do trýznivého města,
mnou vchází se do věčné bolesti,
mnou vchází se k těm, jež Bůh věčně trestá.
Mnou dal Pán průchod spravedlnosti,
jsem z Boží moci, dílem lásky jdete,
jsem sklenuta nejvyšší moudrostí.
Všechno stvořené přede mnou v tom světě
je od věků. Já navždy potrvám.
Zanechte naděje, kdo vstupujete.“

„Dobré panování lásky, neboť odvrací mysl svého věrného od všech věcí nízkých. Nedobré je panování lásky, neboť čím větší věrností je jí oddán její věrný, tím větší a bolestnější jsou rozpoložení, jimiž musí projít.“

„Takový v smrti jsem, jak žil jsem dříve.“

„Nevinnost najdete jen v maličkých.“

„Naděje byť malá, zelená se.“

„Optimismus byl vždy zachráncem lidstva.“

„Filozofie je láskyplné zacházení s moudrostí.“

„Tu vyšli jsme a zřeli jsme zas hvězdy.“

„Cesta do ráje začíná v pekle.“

„Láska nás vedla ke smrti v téže chvíli.“

„Nejtemnější místa v pekle jsou vyhrazena těm, kteří zachovávají nestrannost v časech morální krize.“

„Jsem čtverhran, stojím, ať vržen jakkoli.“

„Občané tu nejsou kvůli konzulům, ale naopak.“

„Jeden čeká, že se doba změní. Jiný pevně ji chytí a hned jedná!“

„Zjistíš, jak trpce chutná cizí chléb a jak je perná cesta nahoru i dolů po cizím schodišti.“

„Zůstanu-li, kdo půjde? Půjdu-li, kdo zůstane?“

„Kde v půli život náš je se svou poutí, procházet musel jsem tak temným lesem, že pravý směr jsem nemoh uhodnouti.“

„Hledám to, co hledá každý člověk – mír a klid.“

„Ten, kdo je nejlépe způsobilý vládnout, může i druhé nejlépe uzpůsobit.“

„V půl naší zemské pouti když se vkročí, já octnul jsem se v tmavém, pustém lese, neb cesta pravá zmizela mi s očí.“

„A jako ten, kdo z mořské bouře hřmící
se zachrání, břeh zachytí a v divý
vln svár se bezdech točí zírající.“

„Nech naděje, čí noha sem se šine!“

„Morálka je krásou filosofie.“

„Noc, která od nás skrývá věci.“

„Můj tvůrce byl božský orgán.“
Fecemi la divina potestate.

„Odtud jsme vyšli vstříc hvězdám.“

„Růže a žena jsou nejkrásnější dary života.“

“In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria… si trova una rubrica la quale dice: Incipit vita nova.”

“Ye keep your watch in the eternal day.”
Voi vigilate ne l'etterno die.

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”

“Here sighs and lamentations and loud cries
were echoing across the starless air,
so that, as soon as I set out, I wept.
Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements,
accents of anger, words of suffering,
and voices shrill and faint, and beating hands—
all went to make a tumult that will whirl
forever through that turbid, timeless air,
like sand that eddies when a whirlwind swirls.”

“One day, to pass the time away, we read
of Lancelot—how love had overcome him.
We were alone, and we suspected nothing.
And time and time again that reading led
our eyes to meet, and made our faces pale,
and yet one point alone defeated us.
When we had read how the desired smile
was kissed by one who was so true a lover,
this one, who never shall be parted from me,
while all his body trembled, kissed my mouth.
A Gallehault indeed, that book and he
who wrote it, too; that day we read no more.”

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”

“Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.”
Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi.

“Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.”

“The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.”

“When we understand this we see clearly that the subject round which the alternative senses play must be twofold. And we must therefore consider the subject of this work [the Divine Comedy] as literally understood, and then its subject as allegorically intended. The subject of the whole work, then, taken in the literal sense only is "the state of souls after death" without qualification, for the whole progress of the work hinges on it and about it. Whereas if the work be taken allegorically, the subject is "man as by good or ill deserts, in the exercise of the freedom of his choice, he becomes liable to rewarding or punishing justice."”
Hiis visis, manifestum est quod duplex oportet esse subiectum circa quod currant alterni sensus. Et ideo videndum est de subiecto huius operis, prout ad litteram accipitur; deinde de subiecto, prout allegorice sententiatur. Est ergo subiectum totius operis, litteraliter tantum accepti, status animarum post mortem simpliciter sumptus. Nam de illo et circa illum totius operis versatur processus. Si vero accipiatur opus allegorice, subiectum est homo, prout merendo et demerendo per arbitrii libertatem iustitie premiandi et puniendi obnoxius est.

“Now the kind of philosophy under which we proceed in the whole and in the part is moral philosophy or ethics; because the whole was undertaken not for speculation but for practice.”
Genus vero philosophie, sub quo hic in toto et parte proceditur, est morale negotium, sive ethica; quia non ad speculandum, sed ad opus inventum est totum et pars.

“And just as he who, with exhausted breath,
having escaped from the sea to shore,
turns to the perilous waters and gazes.”

“My maker was divine authority.”
Fecemi la divina potestate.

“"'Vexilla Regis prodeunt Inferni'
Towards us; therefore look in front of thee,"
My Master said, "if thou discernest him."”
"Vexilla regis prodeunt inferni verso di noi; però dinanzi mira," disse 'l maestro mio, "se tu 'l discerni."

“For in every action what is primarily intended by the doer, whether he acts from natural necessity or out of free will, it is the disclosure of his own image. Hence it comes about that every doer, in so far as he does, takes delight in doing; since everything that is desires its own being, and since in action the being of the doer is somehow intensified, delight necessarily follows... Thus, nothing acts unless [by acting] it makes patent its latent self.”

“As the thing more perfect is, the more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”

“But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved,
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.”

“Do you not know that we are worms and born
To form the angelic butterfly that soars,
Without defenses, to confront His judgment?”

“To a greater power and to a better nature you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world goes astray, in you is the cause, in you let it be sought.”

“If I thought my answer were to one
who would ever return to the world,
this flame should stay without another movement; but since none
ever returned alive from this depth, if what I hear is true,
I answer thee without fear of infamy.”

“Not only thy benignity gives succour
To him who asketh it, but oftentimes
Forerunneth of its own accord the asking.”

“Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.”

“As the thing more perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”

“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”

“Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

“That your art follows her so far as it can, as the disciple does the master, so that your art is as it were grandchild of God.”

“You dull your own perceptions
with false imaginings and do not grasp
what would be clear but for your preconceptions.”

“He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who gives his life for it.”

“For top of judgment doth not vail itself,
Because the fire of love fulfils at once
What he must satisfy who here installs him.”