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NUMBER:15761
QUOTATION:Consider your breed;
you were not made to live like beasts,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.
ATTRIBUTION:Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet. Ulysses, in “The Inferno,” cto. 18, The Divine Comedy (completed 1321).

Urging his companions to a journey that would prove disastrous.
 
 
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