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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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I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
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Mankind is at its best when it is most free.
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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
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The secret of getting things done is to act!
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.
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He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
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