❝ With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused. 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
❝ The reputation which the world bestows is like the wind, that shifts now here now there, its name changed with the quarter whence it blows. Dante Alighieri
❝ There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlpool. Dante Alighieri
❝ Love and the gracious heart are a single thing… One can no more be without the other Than the reasoning mind without its reason. Dante Alighieri
❝ Here one must leave behind all hesitation; here every cowardice must meet its death. Dante Alighieri
❝ “Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.” Dante Alighieri