Consider how your souls were sown: you were not made to live like brutes or beasts, but to pursue virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri, Inferno, 26.118-120.

It was the hour that turns seafarers’ longings homeward—the hour that makes their hearts grow tender upon the day they bid sweet friends farewell; the hour that pierces the new traveler with love when he has heard, far off, the bell that seems to mourn the dying of the day. — Dante, Purg., 8.1-6.

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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita. — Dante Alighieri, Inferno 1.1-3. 🎨 Gustave Doré.