A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. |
A great flame follows a little spark. |
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark |
A sorrow's crown of sorrow, Is remembering happier things |
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! (words inscribed over the gates of Hell |
Abandon all hope, you who enter here! |
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here |
All hope abandon, ye who enter here! |
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. |
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. |
Beauty awakens the soul to act. |
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. |
Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge |
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen? |
Follow your own star! |