The more perfect a thing the more it feels good and evil.

​Per me si va ne la città dolente,Per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,Per me si va tra la perduta gente.Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:Fecemi la divina potestateLa somma sapienza e'l primo amoreDinanzi a me non fuor cose create se non etterne, e io etterno duro.Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'intrate.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you

Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power,supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter.

Through me is the way into the doleful city; through me the way into the eternal pain; through me the way among the people lost. Justice moved my High Maker; Divine Power made me, Wisdom Supreme, and Primal Love. Before me were no things created, but eternal; and eternal I endure: leave all hope, ye that enter.

There he died; and as thou seest me, sawI the three fall one by one, between the fifthday and the sixth: whence I betook me,already blind, to groping over each, and forthree days called them, after they were dead;then fasting had more power than grief.