The soul, which is created quick to love, responds to everything that pleases, just as soon as beauty wakens it to act. - Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Christ did not say to His first congregation:
‘Go and preach twaddle to the waiting world.’
[XXIX:109-110]

Let them cease, then, to insult the Roman empire, who pretend that they are the sons of the Church; when they see that Christ, the bridegroom of the Church, sanctioned the Roman empire at the beginning and at the end of His warfare on earth. And now I think that I have made it sufficiently clear that it was by right that the Romans acquired to themselves the empire of the world.

Oh happy people, oh Ausonia, how glorious hadst thou been, if either he, that weakener of thine empire, had never been born, or if his own pious intention had never deceived him?

Pois bem, meu amigo, a Terra será um dia um cadáver. Tornar-se-á inabitável e será desabitada como a lua, que há muito tempo perdeu o calor vital. — Dentro de quantos séculos? — perguntou Conseil. — Daqui a algumas centenas de milhares de anos...