They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path. (Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy")
Love and the gentle heart are one thing, just as the poet says in his verse, each from the other one as well divorced as reason from the mind's reasoning. (Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy")
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. (Dante Alighieri)
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. (Dante Alighieri)
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. (Dante Alighieri)
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. (Dante Alighieri)
Uncouth tongues, horrible shriekings of despair, Shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, And, with it all, smiting of hands, were there, Making a tumult, nothing could assuage, To swirl in the air that knows not day or night, Like sand withi (Dante Alighieri)
They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, (Dante Alighieri)