If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
He listens well who takes notes.
There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
