“For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other.”

—  Dante Alighieri, book Purgatorio

Canto V, lines 16–18 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

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