Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. Dante Alighieri on beauty
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. Dante Alighieri on change
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri on happiness
Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. Dante Alighieri on history
All hope abandon, ye who enter here! Dante Alighieri on hope
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri on knowledge
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Dante Alighieri on men
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. Dante Alighieri on nature