“Necessity brings him here, not pleasure.”

—  Dante Alighieri , book Inferno

Canto XII, line 87 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

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Necessità 'l ci 'nduce, e non diletto.

The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

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