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

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

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

-- William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- William Shakespeare

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

-- Alexander Pushkin