"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.
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.