The darkest places in Hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
-- Dante Alighieri
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
-- Dante Alighieri
For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.
-- Dante Alighieri
In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell,
It were no easy task, how savage wild
That forest, how robust and rough it's growth,
Which to remember only, my dismay
Renews, in bitterness not far from death.
Yet, to discourse of what there good befell,
All else will I related discover'd there...
-- Dante Alighieri
How first I enter'd it I scarce can say,
Such sleepy dulness in that instant weigh'd
My senses down, when the true path I left;
But when a mountain's foot I reach'd, where closed
The valley that had pierced my heart with dread,
I look'd aloft, and saw his shoulders broad
Already vested with that planet's beam,
Who leads all wanderers safe through every way...
-- Dante Alighieri
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