The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Nature is the art of God.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
From a little spark may burst a flame.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Follow your own star!
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
He listens well who takes notes.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
I love to doubt as well as know.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Small projects need much more help than great.
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
