“Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.”

“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

“Perceive ye not that we are worms, designedTo form the angelic butterfly, that goesTo judgment, leaving all defence behind?Why doth your mind take such exalted pose,Since ye, disabled, are as insects, meanAs worm which never transformation knows?”

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”

“Before me things created were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”

“Through me you pass into the city of woe:Through me you pass into eternal pain:Through me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric moved:To rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”

“Thus you may understand that love aloneis the true seed of every merit in you,and of all acts for which you must atone.”