«Quell' anima là sù c'ha maggior pena», disse 'l maestro, «è Giuda Scariotto, che 'l capo ha dentro e fuor le gambe mena. De li altri due c'hanno il … - Dante Alighieri

"Why doth thy mind so occupy itself,"
The Master said, "that thou thy pace dost slacken?
What matter it to thee what here is whispered?
Come after me, and let the people talk;
Stand like a steadfast tower, that never wags
Its top for all the blowing of the winds;
For evermore the man in whom is springing
Thought upon thought, removes from him the mark,
Because the force of one the other weakens."

Purgatorio V: 10-18

Al tornar de la mente, che si chiuse
dinanzi a la pietà d'i due cognati,
che di trestizia tutto mi confuse,

novi tormenti e novi tormentati
mi veggio intorno, come ch'io mi mova
e ch'io mi volga, e come che io guati.

-And I- my head oppressed by horror- said:
Master, what is it that i hear? Who are those people so defeated by their pain?

- And he to me:
This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.