Quotes by Divine Comedy Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy men knowledge The devil is not as black as he is painted. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy devil black He listens well who takes notes. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy wells notes If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy causes world For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy veins pulse He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy amor moving All hope abandon, ye who enter here! Dante Alighieri divine-comedy inferno pedestal I found myself within a forest dark. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy dark forests Midway upon the journey of our life Dante Alighieri midway divine-comedy journey Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri gates-of-hell divine-comedy inferno