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

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

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

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]