Dante Alighieri

"Inspiration strikes those prepared to receive it."

"Relationships are the mirrors in which we see ourselves."

"Solitude is where the soul finds its true voice."

"Change is the only constant in the universe."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the highest calling."

"Hope is the anchor of the human spirit."

"Love alone can justify the suffering of existence."

"Happiness dwells not in possession, but in appreciation."

"Success without integrity is mere shadow play."

"Friendship is the mirror of the virtuous heart."

"Family bonds are the roots from which we grow."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

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

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

"Love is the star to every wandering bark"

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change"

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

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here"

"One ought to be afraid of nothing other than things possessed of power to do us harm"

"The night that never ends requires us to be our own light"

"To understand anything is to understand by means of love"

"We are made by what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act but a habit"

"The path to paradise begins in hell"

"He who sees time only sees the surface of things"

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

"Beauty awakens the soul to act"

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing"

"Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is weakness"

"To be patient is to be strong"

"A man can preserve his integrity through anything by believing in something greater than himself"