When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. Dante Alighieri
With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused. Dante Alighieri
In that part of the book of my memory, before which very little is written, there is a heading that reads “Here begins a new life”. Dante Alighieri
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri
The greatest gift which God in His bounty Bestowed in creating, And the most conformed to His own goodness And that which He most prizes, was the freedom of the will, With which the creatures that have intelligence, They all and they alone, were and are endowed. Dante Alighieri