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Forese, like many of Dante's preachers, seems to have been one of those self-ignorant or self-exasperated denouncers, who "Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to."

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri

But the Vain are foolish and self-ignorant, and that palpably: because they attempt honourable things, as though they were worthy, and then they are detected.

From Ethics by Aristotle