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.

-- Xiang Yu

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

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

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

恋愛は一種の創作である。

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

To love is simply to be always beside that person.

-- Shūsaku Endō

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

-- Rumi