Dante Alighieri Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Angel, Judgment

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri

• Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Mean, Leaving

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hall Grandgent (1947). “The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Complete”

• In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Corn, Fields

• O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Judging, Judgment

  Homer, Aristophanes, Terence, Luís de Camões, Perseus (1822). “Works of the British Poets: The vision of Dante Alighieri, tr. by H.F. Cary”, p.292

• The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Past, Punishment, Lust

  Dante Alighieri (1995). “Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.49, Indiana University Press

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