Dante Alighieri Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

  Dante Alighieri

  Mankind

  Dante Alighieri (2009). “On World-Government Or de Monarchia”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

• Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

  Dante Alighieri

  Freedom, Choices, Mind

• For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

  Dante Alighieri

  Power, Evil, Defense

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

• 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 here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spring, Roots, Age

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.252, Univ of California Press

• Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, May, Mankind

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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