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

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

The supreme elegance is to be a good man.

-- Victor Hugo

Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- William Shakespeare

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

-- William Shakespeare

I loved you: love perhaps has not yet faded entirely from my soul.

-- Alexander Pushkin

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu