Dante Alighieri Path Quotations

The path to paradise begins in hell.

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost...