I am the way into the city of woe, I am the way into eternal pain, I am the way to go among the lost. Justice caused my high architect to move, Divine omnipotence created me, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me there were noes created things But those that last forever—as do I. Abandon all hope you who enter here.

— Dante Alighieri

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have leaded them through such sorrow to their fate?

— Dante Alighieri

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

— Dante Alighieri

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you, it is to be sought.

— Dante Alighieri

If you, free as you are of every weight had stayed below, then that would be as strangers living flame on earth remaining still." And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

— Dante Alighieri

It is necessity and not pleasures that compels us. [Italian: Necessity c'induce, e non stiletto.]

— Dante Alighieri

Love, that moves the sun and the other stars

— Dante Alighieri

Mentee Che la Esperanza ha for del Verde

— Dante Alighieri

Nature is the art of God.

— Dante Alighieri

NOI Siam venue all loco of'i' t'ho Deutsche TU Vedas LE gent Dolores'Hanna permute IL Ben de l'intellect. We to the place have come, where I have told thee Thou shalt behold the people dolorous Who have foregone the good of intellect.

— Dante Alighieri