Dante Alighieri Quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Alighieri, Dante. The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri. Translated by Henry Francis Cary, Frederick Warne and Co., 1814, Inferno, Canto III, line 9.
This is the opposite viewpoint from most sages, wise men and philosophers. They maintain that people’s fears are almost always worse than the reality. However, Thompson was a great pessimist, sometimes an occupational hazard for a muckraker or an investigative journalist. When he really dug down deep enough in politics, there was usually something very unsavory he would find that most people did not expect.
Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante (/ˈdɑːnteɪ, ˈdænteɪ, ˈdænti/, also US: /ˈdɑːnti/; c. 1265 – 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
