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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“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.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti
(Follow your road and let the people say)”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“As the geometer intently seeks
to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

“The well heeded well heard.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving,
Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly,
That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Now you must cast aside your laziness,"
my master said, "for he who rests on down
or under covers cannot come to fame;
and he who spends his life without renown
leaves such a vestige of himself on earth
as smoke bequeaths to air or foam to water.
Therefore, get up; defeat your breathlessness
with spirit that can win all battles if
the body's heaviness does not deter it.
A longer ladder still is to be climbed;
it's not enough to have left them behind;
if you have understood, now profit from it.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Why have you let your mind get so entwined,"
my master said, "that you have slowed your walk?
Why should you care about what's whispered here?
Come, follow me, and let these people talk:
stand like a sturdy tower that does not shake
its summit though the winds may blast; always
the man in whom thought thrusts ahead of thought
allows the goal he's set to move far off-
the force of one thought saps the other's force.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“When any of our faculties retains
a strong impression of delight or pain,
the soul will wholly concentrate on that,
neglecting any other power it has;
and thus, when something seen
or heard secures the soul in stringent grip,
time moves and yet we do not notice it.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one’s absolute attention.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“I cannot well repeat how there I entered,”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“That precious fruit which all men eagerly go searching for on many different boughs will give,today, peace to your hungry soul.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“So bitter is it, death is little more;”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“On march the banners of the King of Hell.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso