This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. – Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. – Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. – Dante Alighieri
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, Gods grandchild. – Dante Alighieri
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers