Dante Alighieri

No pain is greater than remembering happy times from misery.

He who knows about pain, knows everything.

Humanity is in the best situation when it possesses the highest degree of freedom.

Be firm like a tower, whose peak never bends to the onslaught of time.

I enjoy doubting no less than knowing.

Seek freedom, a treasure as precious as knows the one who gives their life for it.

Oh, foolish pursuits of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us not to lift our flight from the Earth!

Wine sows poetry in the hearts.

Your fame is like the flower; that sprouts and dies; and the same sun that made it rise from the bitter earth withers it.

If your pride is not moderated, it will be your greatest punishment.

One cannot understand it [passion] unless they experience it.

Fame is not achieved reclining on soft feathers, nor under the shelter of quilts.