Virgil’s last words to Dante occur in Canto XXVII of the Purgatory:
“Await no more a word or sign from me.
Your will is straightened, free, and whole — and not
To act upon its promptings would be wrong:
‘I crown and miter you lord of your self.”
I know of no more perfect account of human happiness and the goal of moral action.
RP said,
September 24, 2010 at 2:39 am
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself.