"Through me the way to the dolorous city; Through me the way to eternal pain; Through me the way among the people lost."

"Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learned, seized him for the fair form that was ta'en from me; And still the mode offends me."

"Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"O blind greed, and foolish mortals' minds, that spur you on in life with such desire!"

"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."