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"...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."
"Mankind is at its best when it is most free."
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
"Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words"
"Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk."
"But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay."
"In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’."
"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men."
"Nature is the art of God."
"From a little spark may burst a flame."
"Everywhere is here and every when is now."
"Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here."
"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds."
"Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him."
""The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other."
"He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves."
"The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone."
"Love insists the loved loves back"
"The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true."
"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."