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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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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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