This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
If you give people light, they will find their own way.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Love insists the loved loves back.
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
The path to paradise begins in hell.
There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
From a little spark may burst a flame.
As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
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.