Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

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

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.

To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.