A peace of heaven...
Lo cielo i vostri movimenti inizia; non dico tutti, ma, posto ch'i' 'l dica, lume v'e' dato a bene e a malizia, e libero voler; che, se fatica ne le prime battaglie col ciel dura, poi vince tutto, se ben si notrica.
[Heaven starts your actions; not all of them but, even in this case, you've been given the reason which can distinguish between good and evil, and you've been also given free will; this may meet with difficulties at first, but it wins everything in the end, if it's fed with virtue, with the help of Heaven.]
Divina Commedia, Purgatorio, XVI, 73-78
"wash you those wounds within."
[Heaven starts your actions; not all of them but, even in this case, you've been given the reason which can distinguish between good and evil, and you've been also given free will; this may meet with difficulties at first, but it wins everything in the end, if it's fed with virtue, with the help of Heaven.]
Divina Commedia, Purgatorio, XVI, 73-78
"wash you those wounds within."
