“Alas, alas, and woe!
Lucifer, why did you fall so?
We who were angels so fair
and sat so high above the air,
now we’ve become as black as any coal,
ugly and tattered as a fool.”

—Dante (1265–1321), from his Divine Comedy. Found in The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History by Jeffrey Burton Russell, 1988.