За мною – мир страданий и мучений, За мною – скорбь и слезы без конца, Мир падших душ, печальных привидений. Я – правосудье высшее Творца, Могуществ… - Dante Alighieri

y vi detrás de nosotros un diablo negro venir corriendo por el puente. ¡Ay! ¡Cuán fiero era su aspecto! ¡Y qué ademanes traía acerbos, extendidas las alas y el pie ligero! Su hombro, puntiagudo y soberbio, cargaba un pecador a horcajadas, al que tenía por el pie agarrado del jarrete.

Hasty opinion too often points the wrong way, and then affection for one's own opinion binds up the intellect.

Because the charity of my native place
Constrained me, gathered I the scattered leaves,
And gave them back to him, who now was hoarse.
Then came we to the confine, where disparted
The second round is from the third, and where
A horrible form of Justice is beheld.
Clearly to manifest these novel things,
I say that we arrived upon a plain,
Which from its bed rejecteth every plant;
The dolorous forest is a garland to it
All round about, as the sad moat to that;
There close upon the edge we stayed our feet.”

Excerpt From
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
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