Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante AlighieriLove, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
Dante AlighieriIn that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: โIncipit vita nova: Here begins the new lifeโ.
Dante AlighieriTo get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.
Dante Alighieri