“Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.”
“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
“On march the banners of the King of Hell.”
“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said:"Master, what is it that I hear? Who arethose people so defeated by their pain?" And he to me: "This miserable wayis taken by the sorry souls of thosewho lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels,the company of those who were not rebelsnor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened,have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them —even the wicked cannot glory in them.”
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.”