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Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.
from the book "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
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Reader, if thou to credit what is here
Art slow, 'tis no surprise, since I can scarce
Believe, who saw it all as clear as clear.
from the book "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
from the book "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
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Lying in a featherbed
will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt,
and he who uses up his life without achieving fame
leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth
than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
from the book "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
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Necessity brings him here, not pleasure.
from the book "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
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Pride, Envy, and Avarice are
the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.
from the book "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
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There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
from the book "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
Love, which absolves no beloved one from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm
that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet.
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Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart,
seized this man for the fair form that was
taken from me, and the manner still hurts me.
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I came into a place void of all light,
which bellows like the sea in tempest,
when it is combated by warring winds.
from the book "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri