Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and… — Dante Alighieri
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
In the original Italian
Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.
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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.
