Quote by Dante Alighieri: “Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

Dante challenges humanity to rise above purely animalistic existence and embrace their higher potential. He encourages individuals to pursue moral excellence and intellectual understanding, reminding them that human beings are meant for a nobler purpose than mere survival, a purpose aligned with their divine origin.

Spoken by Ulysses in the Eighth Circle of Hell, as he recounts his final, forbidden voyage beyond the Pillars of Hercules, representing humanity's insatiable, yet potentially prideful, quest for knowledge and self-improvement.

Italian poet born in Florence in 1265, author of the Divine Comedy, a three-part epic poem considered the greatest work of Italian literature and a cornerstone of Western literary tradition. Exiled from Florence in 1302 due to political conflict, he wrote much of his major work in exile. He died in Ravenna in 1321.