"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality"

Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend Its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.