WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from Dante Alighieri:
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Of all creation’s bounty realized,
God’s greatest gift, the gift in which mankind
is most like Him, the gift by Him most prized,
is the freedom he bestowed upon the will.
All his intelligent creatures, and they alone,
were so endowed, and so endowed are still.
»
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The Divine Comedy [Divina Commedia], Book 3 "Paradiso," Canto 5, l. 19ff (5.19-24) [Beatrice] (1320) [tr. Ciardi (1970)] - Dante Alighieri | WIST Quotations
Of all creation's bounty realized, God's greatest gift, the gift in which mankind is most like Him, the gift by Him most prized, is the freedom he bestowed upon the will. All his intelligent creatures, and they alone, were so endowed, and so endowed are still. [Lo maggior don che…