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

—  Dante Alighieri , book Inferno

Canto XXVI, lines 118–120.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

Original

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

XXVI, 118-120
Variant: Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

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