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a place to converse, virtually, on a variety of topics, bringing together multiple strands to encourage, question, challenge, ponder, and edify. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. (Eccl. 4.12)

Saturday, November 15, 2014

gold buys not rest (Dante)

You see, my son, the short-lived mockery
of all the wealth that is in Fortune’s keep,
over which the human race is bickering;

for all the gold that is or ever was
beneath the moon won’t buy a moment’s rest
for even one among these weary souls.

- Dante, The Divine Comedy, Canto VII

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