Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Dante alighieri
Date: May 9, 2007
He listens well who takes notes.
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
A great flame follows a little spark.
For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.