Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

To 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.

…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.