I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
Dante Alighieri
fate sorrow desire
Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde
redemption hope
Great fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrha's god for aid - that he may answer. Canto I 34-36
hope
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)
passion true-love
A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.
poetry
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and herewere every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
poetry garden-of-eden
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita.
poetry comedy medieval exile
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
life wisdom time impatience aging
The experience of this sweet life.
beautiful
The path to paradise begins in hell.
paradise heaven hell
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.[Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
latin motto hell
Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power, supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter.
hell
The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.
humanity
Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutesBut for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.
life humanity excellence knowledge virtue calling
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
kindness help
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