You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. - Dante Alighieri
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
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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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Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Here powers failed my high imagination: But by now my desire and will were turned, Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly, By the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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