from this you surely understand that love must be the seed in you of every virtue and of every deed that merits punishment. - Dante Alighieri

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from this you surely understand that love
must be the seed in you of every virtue
and of every deed that merits punishment.

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About Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (c. 30 May 1265 – 13 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

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Alternative Names: Dante • Durante degli Alighieri • Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
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people, when they see their leader snatch at those same goods that greedily they crave, graze on just those, and do not seek beyond. 103 So – as you may well see – bad government is why the world is so malignant now. It’s not that nature is corrupt in you.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso · November 29, 2012 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance
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