Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
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Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"The devil is not as black as he is painted."
Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"He listens well who takes notes."
Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."
Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble."
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"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
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"He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle."
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"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
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"I found myself within a forest dark."
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"Midway upon the journey of our life"
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