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The Divine Comedy [Divina Commedia], Book 2 "Purgatorio," Canto 17, l. 115ff (17.115-123) (1314) [tr. Ciardi (1961)] - Dante Alighieri | WIST Quotations
Some think they see their own hope to advance tied to their neighbor's fall, and thus they long to see him cast down from his eminence; Some fear their power, preferment, honor, fame will suffer by another's rise, and thus, irked by his good, desire his ruin and shame; And…