"To me she said: "There is no sorrow greater than, in times of misery, to hold at heart the memory of happiness. - Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.

There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery

There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery —

There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.

There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

There is no greater sorrow...than to be mindful of the happy time.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Bethink thee then how love must be the seed
In you, not only of each virtuous action,
But also of each punishable deed.

All mankind’s institutions, of every sort,
have their own death, though in what long endures
it is hidden from you, your own lives being short.
[XVI:79-81]

Spesse fiate vegnonmi a la mente le oscure qualità ch’Amor mi dona, e venmene pietà, sì che sovente io dico: «Lasso!, avviene elli a persona?»; ch’Amor m’assale subitanamente, sì che la vita quasi m’abbandona: campami un spirto vivo solamente, e que’ riman perché di voi ragiona. Poscia mi sforzo, ché mi voglio atare; e così smorto, d’onne valor voto, vegno a vedervi, credendo guerire: e se io levo li occhi per guardare, nel cor mi si comincia uno tremoto, che fa de’ polsi l’anima partire.