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The Divine Comedy [Divina Commedia], Book 1 "Inferno," Canto 11, l. 52ff (11.52-60) [Virgil] (1309) [tr. Binyon (1943)] - Dante Alighieri | WIST Quotations
Fraud, which so gnaweth at all men's conscience, A man may use on one who trusts him best And on him also who risks no confidence. This latter mode seems only to arrest The love which Nature meaneth to endure; Hence in the second circle huddled nest Hypocrisy, flattery; they…