From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
Nature is the art of God.
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving,Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly,That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still.And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.
I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state,perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and herewere every fruit and never-en...
They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks...
That with him were, what time the Love Divine
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.
So bitter is it, death is little more;
Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell;at first these sounds resounding made me weep:tongues confused, a language strained in anguishwith cadences o...
Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
Be as a tower, that, firmly set,Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!
The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair