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Non ti rimembra di quelle parole Do you not remember the words with which
con le quai la tua Etica pertratta your Aristotelian Ethics speaks
le tre disposizion che 'l ciel non vole, of the three natures that Heaven does not will:
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ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS: NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS. SEE 7 1 ‘...THOSE QUALITIES OF CHARACTER TO BE AVOIDED, WHICH MAY BE
TAKEN AS THREE IN NUMBER & WE CALL THEM INCONTINENCE ( = LACK OF SELF-CONTROL), BRUTISHNESS OR BESTIALITY ( =
VIOLENCE) & VICE ( = FRAUD).’. SEE ALSO 7 6: ‘...IT IS THOUGHT MORE EXCUSABLE TO FOLLOW THE NATURAL IMPULSES, WHICH
ALL MEN FEEL, THAN THOSE WHICH ARE PECULIAR TO CERTAIN PERSONS....BESTIALITY IS A LESSER EVIL THAN VICE.
VIRGIL (VOICE):
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incontenenza, malizia e la matta incontinence, prodigality, malice and mad
bestialitade? e come incontenenza brutishness, and how incontinence offends God less
men Dio offende e men biasimo accatta? and incurs less blame?
DANTE REMEMBERS AND NOTES.
DANTE (VOICE):
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incontenenza, malizia e la matta incontinence, malice and mad brutishness,
VIRGIL (VOICE):
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bestialitade? e come incontenenza and how incontinence prodigality offends God less
men Dio offende e men biasimo accatta? and incurs less blame?
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Se tu riguardi ben questa sentenza, If you consider this doctrine correctly,
e rechiti a la mente chi son quelli and recall to mind who those are,
che sù di fuor sostegnon penitenza, that suffer punishment out there, above,
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tu vedrai ben perché da questi felli you will see, easily, why they are separated
sien dipartiti, e perché men crucciata from these destructive spirits, and why
la divina vendetta li martelli». why divine justice strikes them with less anger.
DANTE (VOICE): & DANTE (VOICE):
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«O sol che sani ogne vista turbata, I said: O Sun, that heals all troubled sight, you
tu mi contenti sì quando tu solvi, make me so content when you explain to me,
che, non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata. that to question is as delightful as to know.
DANTE (VOICE):
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Ancora in dietro un poco ti rivolvi», Go back a moment, to where you said
diss' io, «là dove di' ch'usura offende that usury offends divine goodness,
la divina bontade, e 'l groppo solvi». and unravel that knot.
THEY COME DOWN THE → L → .
VIRGIL:
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«Filosofia», mi disse, «a chi la 'ntende, He said to me: To him who attends,
nota, non pure in una sola parte, Philosophy shows, in more than one place,
come natura lo suo corso prende how Nature takes her path
DANTE notes:
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«Filosofia», mi disse, «a chi la 'ntende, He said to me: To him who attends,
Philosophy shows, in more than one place,