''Through me the way is to the City of Woe: Through me the way into the Eternal Pain; Through me the way among the lost below. Righteouness 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.'' Inscription above the door to Hell -Canto III, Inferno, The divine comedy -Dante