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Inferno

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2019
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Against thyself,” that Sage commanded me,

“And now attend here;” and he raised his finger.

“When thou shalt be before the radiance sweet

Of her whose beauteous eyes all things behold,

From her thou’lt know the journey of thy life.”

Unto the left hand then he turned his feet;

We left the wall, and went towards the middle,

Along a path that strikes into a valley,

Which even up there unpleasant made its stench.

CANTO XI (#ulink_a54811da-3881-523c-8da1-7a90f2bd7e9c)

Upon the margin of a lofty bank

Which great rocks broken in a circle made,

We came upon a still more cruel throng;

And there, by reason of the horrible

Excess of stench the deep abyss throws out,

We drew ourselves aside behind the cover

Of a great tomb, whereon I saw a writing,

Which said: “Pope Anastasius I hold,

Whom out of the right way Photinus drew.”

“Slow it behoveth our descent to be,

So that the sense be first a little used

To the sad blast, and then we shall not heed it.”

The Master thus; and unto him I said,

“Some compensation find, that the time pass not

Idly;” and he: “Thou seest I think of that.

My son, upon the inside of these rocks,”

Began he then to say, “are three small circles,

From grade to grade, like those which thou art leaving.

They all are full of spirits maledict;

But that hereafter sight alone suffice thee,

Hear how and wherefore they are in constraint.

Of every malice that wins hate in Heaven,

Injury is the end; and all such end

Either by force or fraud afflicteth others.

But because fraud is man’s peculiar vice,

More it displeases God; and so stand lowest

The fraudulent, and greater dole assails them.

All the first circle of the Violent is;

But since force may be used against three persons,

In three rounds ’tis divided and constructed.

To God, to ourselves, and to our neighbour can we

Use force; I say on them and on their things,

As thou shalt hear with reason manifest.

A death by violence, and painful wounds,

Are to our neighbour given; and in his substance

Ruin, and arson, and injurious levies;

Whence homicides, and he who smites unjustly,

Marauders, and freebooters, the first round

Tormenteth all in companies diverse.

Man may lay violent hands upon himself
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