Dante Alighieri

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

He listens well who takes notes.

Small projects need much more help than great.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

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

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

I love to doubt as well as know.

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.

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

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Follow your own star!

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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