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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.
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Without hope we live in desire.
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
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