Dante Alighieri Quotes
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio. Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Bantam Classics, 1982, Canto 16, lines 82-83, p. 147.
The president was a bachelor and was constantly being chided for that. Some ladies came to the White House and criticized the fact that he "had no lady in the house:"
This is the classic political problem. It is much easier to determine what is wrong, but much harder to put it right. Politicians who harp on problems vigorously seem to escape the obligation of doing something about the problems.
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.