Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- The 'Hegemon-King of Western Chu' whose raw military genius made him the most feared commander of ancient China's civil wars

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible.

-- Kahlil Gibran