Through me the way to the City of Woe:
Through me the way into the Eternal Pain;
Through me the way among the lost below.
Righteousness did my maker on high constrain.
Me did divine authority uprear;
Me supreme wisdom and primal love sustain.
Before I was, no things created were
Save the eternal, and I eternal abide.
Relinquish all hope, ye who enter here.
- Dante Alighieri (translation of Binyon)
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