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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.
e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
The experience of this sweet life.
And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.
Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."
Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
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