“Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.”

—  Dante Alighieri , book Vita Nuova

Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter I (tr. Barbara Reynolds); of love.

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Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi.

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