Lying in a featherbed will not bring you 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 foa...
As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
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 i...
As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
As in the autumn-time the leaves fall off, First one and then another, till the branch Surrenders all its spoils to the earth; In similar fashion did these evil seeds of Adam throw Themselves from t...
A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart,and every single White be seared by wounds.I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.
Those cries rose from among the twisted rootsthrough which the spirits of the damned were slinkingto hide from us. Therefore my Master said:'If you break off a twig, what you will learnwill drive what...
Why have you let your mind get so entwined,my master said, that you have slowed your walk?Why should you care about what's whispered here?Come, follow me, and let these people talk:stand like a sturdy...
Thus you may understand that love aloneis the true seed of every merit in you,and of all acts for which you must atone.
There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.
In that book which is my memory,On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.
Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.
Before me things created were none, save things
Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starl...
When any of our faculties retainsa strong impression of delight or pain,the soul will wholly concentrate on that,neglecting any other power it has;and thus, when something seenor heard secures the sou...
Noi siam venuti al loco ov'i' t'ho dettoche tu vedrai le genti dolorosec'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto.We to the place have come, where I have told theeThou shalt behold the people dolorousWho...
Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria dinanzi a la quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice: INCIPIT VITA NOVA