| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ambition | The great refusal. |
| Appetite | My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. |
| Art | Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. |
| Art | Art for art's sake. |
| Bells | The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day. |
| Companionship | Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. |
| Conscience | O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! |
| Conscience | So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth, |
| Conscience | Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. |
| Courage | Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. |
| Doubt | Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. |
| Evil | Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. |
| Evil | It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. |
| Experience | Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. |
| Eyes | Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise. |
| Eyes | Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. |
| Fame | The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. |
| Fame | All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. |
| Hell | There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about. |
| Hope | Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. |
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