Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno

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Topic

Purpose of life Virtue

Author

Dante Alighieri

Source

Inferno The Divine Comedy

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem Epic poem Religious literature

Language

Italian

Time

1321 1320s 14th century

Era

Middle Ages

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Italy Europe

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Original Citation

Dante. Inferno. c. 1320, canto 26, l. 118-120.

Current Citation

Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Translated by Allen Mandelbaum. Everyman's Library, 1995, canto 15, l. 99.

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Another quote by Dante Alighieri

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno

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Topic
Hell Hopelessness and despair Hope

Author

Dante Alighieri
Source
Inferno The Divine Comedy
Medium
Poem
Genre
Narrative poem Epic poem Religious literature
Statement Type
Orders and commands
Language
Italian
Time
1321 1320s 14th century
Era
Middle Ages
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Original Citation

Dante Aligheri. "Inferno." La Divina Commedia di Dante. 14th century, canto 3.

Current Citation

Dante Alighieri. "The Inferno." The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso. Translated by John Ciardi. Berkeley, 2003.

Another quote about Purpose of life

For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Socrates

Quoted in Republic, by Plato

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Topic
How to live Purpose of life
Speaker
Socrates

Author

Plato
Source
Republic
Medium
Philosophical dialogue Dialogue
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
375 BC 370s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Republic. Written by Plato. 375 BC, 1, 352d.

Current Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Republic. Written by Plato. Translated by G. M. A Grube and C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing, 1992, 1, 352d.

Another quote from Middle Ages

He loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

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Knights Medieval values

Author

Geoffrey Chaucer
Source
The Canterbury Tales
Language
English
Time
1400 1400s 15th century
Era
Middle Ages
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Original Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The General Prologue." The Canterbury Tales. c. 1400, I. 45.

Current Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The General Prologue." The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue. Edited by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, I. 45.

Another quote originally in Italian

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities

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Topic
Cities

Author

Italo Calvino
Source
Invisible Cities
Medium
Novel
Language
Italian
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Calvino, Italo. Le citta invisibili [Invisible Cities]. Giulio Einaudi, 1972.