A quotation from Euripides:

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There be many shapes of mystery.
And many things God makes to be,
Past hope or fear.
And the end men looked for cometh not,
And a path is there where no man thought.
So hath it fallen here.
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https://wist.info/euripides/62067/

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A quotation from Thomas a Kempis:

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For man proposes but God disposes. The path a person takes does not lie within himself.
[Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit, nec est in homine via ejus.]
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https://wist.info/thomas-a-kempis/11953/

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A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

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By Art and Nature, if thou well recall
How Genesis begins, man ought to get
His bread, and make prosperity for all.
But the usurer contrives a third way yet,
And in herself and in her follower, Art,
Scorns Nature, for his hope is elsewhere set.
[Da queste due, se tu ti rechi a mente
lo Genesì dal principio, convene
prende…
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https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/60082/

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A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

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          Charon, bite back your spleen:
this has been willed where what is willed must be,
and is not yours to ask what it may mean.
          [Caron, non ti crucciare:
vuolsi così colà dove si puote
ciò che si vuole, e più non dimandare]
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https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/57483/

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