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

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.