“Pride, Envy, and Avarice are
the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.”

—  Dante Alighieri, book Inferno

Canto VI, lines 74–75 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

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