Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
Dante AlighieriLo maggior don che Dio per sua larghezza
fesse creando, e a la sua bontate
più conformato, e quel ch'e' più apprezza,
fu de la volontà la libertate;
di che le creature intelligenti,
e tutte e sole, fuore e son dotate.
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,
how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,
have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
Dante AlighieriThey yearn for what they fear for.
Dante AlighieriThere, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
Dante AlighieriTags: inferno-canto-vi-70
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 AlighieriTags: inferno 50 canto-xxiv
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.
Dante AlighieriTags: inferno-canto-vi-105
Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.
Dante AlighieriThe well heeded well heard.
Dante AlighieriTags: inferno
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