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Love, which absolves no loved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it does not leave me even now.

Dante Alighieri

Ah, how hard it is to describe this rough and harsh and dense forest, which renews fear in my thoughts!

Dante Alighieri

And I: 'Master, what is so heavy that it makes them lament so strongly?'.

Dante Alighieri

He had already reached the place where the roar of water falling into the next circle could be heard, similar to the buzzing of beehives.

Dante Alighieri

I saw such a long throng of people, I would not have believed death had undone so many.

Dante Alighieri

There the dreadful Erichtho writhed, who summoned back the shadows to their bodies.

Dante Alighieri

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Sun Tzu

There is no other life; why don’t you give your whole heart to this one?

Ugo Foscolo

You will taste how salty another's bread is, and how hard it is to tread another's stairs up and down.

Dante Alighieri

Beyond the sphere that widest orbit swings, passes the sigh that leaves my heart below.

Francesco Petrarca