Dante Alighieri

"In darkness, we learn the value of light"

"The poet's tongue speaks for those without voice"

"Every person contains multitudes; know yourself completely"

"The heart knows truths the mind cannot grasp"

"In the face of injustice, silence is complicity"

"Dreams are the whispers of the soul seeking expression"

"The greatest strength is the ability to love despite fear"

"To create is to participate in the divine act of making"

"In the rhythm of life, we find our true tempo"

"The political animal must first become a moral being"

"In gratitude, we find abundance"

"The work of our hands reflects the state of our souls"

"Beyond death lies the continuation of all we have loved"

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

"He listens well who takes notes."

"From a little spark may burst a mighty flame."

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

"The more perfect a thing is, the more it feels pleasure and pain."

"Consider your origins; you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood."

"The day that man stops dreaming is the day he ceases to live."

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."

"As a man's will is, so is his power."

"Who can set limits to the loftiness of virtue?"

"The particular character of obscenity lies not in the obscene words themselves but in the obscene thing that they convey."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"Nature is the art of God."

"Great is the distress of one who lacks in virtue."

"All hope abandon, ye who here enter."

"The stars above guide us if we but learn to read them."