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41 " You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you "
― Dante Alighieri , Inferno
42 " Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power,supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter. "
43 " Through me you go to the grief wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest Power, of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love. Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings. And I endure eternally. Surrender as you enter, every hope you have. "
44 " The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender. "
― Dante Alighieri , The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
45 " I am the way into the city of woe,I am the way into eternal pain,I am the way to go among the lost.Justice caused my high architect to move,Divine omnipotence created me,The highest wisdom, and the primal love.Before me there were no created thingsBut those that last forever—as do I.Abandon all hope you who enter here. "
46 " And all the while one spirit uttered this,The other one did weep so, that, for pity,I swooned away as if I had been dying,And fell, even as a dead body falls. "
― Dante Alighieri
47 " It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] "
48 " There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable. "
49 " Noi siam venuti al loco ov'i' t'ho dettoche tu vedrai le genti dolorosec'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto.We to the place have come, where I have told theeThou shalt behold the people dolorousWho have foregone the good of intellect. "
― Dante Alighieri , The Divine Comedy
50 " As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still. "
51 " God's greatest gift to manIn all the bounty He was moved to makeThroughout creation-the one gift the mostClose to his goodness and the one He callsMost precious-is free will. "
― Dante Alighieri , Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
52 " He who knows most grieves most for wasted time. "
53 " Haste denies all acts their dignity. "
54 " Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. "
55 " In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost. "
56 " The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. "
57 " L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "
58 " The devil is not as black as he is painted. "
59 " There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness. "
60 " O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? "