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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
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That with him were, what time the Love Divine
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I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
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Small projects need much more help than great.
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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