The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

Follow your own star!

I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

Honor is the greatest poet.