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81 " I found myself within a forest dark, "
― Dante Alighieri , The Divine Comedy
82 " Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil "
― Dante Alighieri , Inferno
83 " Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. "
― Dante Alighieri , Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
84 " We were men once, though we've become trees "
85 " Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. "
86 " There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair "
87 " Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery. "
88 " all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God. "
89 " I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more... "
90 " Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle. "
― Dante Alighieri , The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
91 " That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit. "
92 " This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs. "
93 " The well heeded well heard. "
94 " For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze. "
95 " Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom. "
96 " This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind. "
97 " My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path. "
98 " Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza. "
99 " If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy. "
100 " Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! "