Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

"The path to paradise begins in hell."

Dante Alighieri

"Haste denies all acts their dignity."

Dante Alighieri

"Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde."

Dante Alighieri

"There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable."

Dante Alighieri