Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [It., Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.]

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! [It., O dignitosa coscienza e netta, Come t' e picciol fallo amaro morso.]