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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

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