Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.””

— Dante Alighieri

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.””

— Dante Alighieri

“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.””

— Dante Alighieri

“The devil is not as black as he is painted.””

— Dante Alighieri

“Through me you pass into the city of woe:Through me you pass into eternal pain:Through me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric moved:To rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.””

— Dante Alighieri

“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.””

— Dante Alighieri

“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?””

— Dante Alighieri

“Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ””

— Dante Alighieri

“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.””

— Dante Alighieri