The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

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

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Nature is the art of God.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

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

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.