Dante Alighieri

For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time win we were happy.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

A great flame follows a little spark.

The experience of this sweet life.
L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves.

He listens well who takes notes.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

All malice has injustice at it's end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.