The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind – Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.
The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.
Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde.
On march the banners of the King of Hell.
Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.
Oh blind cupidity, O wrath insane, That spurs us onward so on our short life, And in the eternal then so badly steeps us!
One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful.
Nature is the art of God.
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
Consider that this day ne’er dawns again.
Mankind is at its best when it is most free.