This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.