Dante Alighieri Quotes About Mankind

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  • Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

    Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.252, Univ of California Press
  • Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

  • Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

    Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”
  • Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

    Dante Alighieri (2009). “On World-Government Or de Monarchia”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC
  • For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

    Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet
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