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In the quoted exchange, Virgil says love kindled by virtue answers itself in another and then asks how Statius could ever have harbored avarice despite his cultivated wisdom.
Statius explains that the fifth terrace punished not avarice but prodigality, its opposite, and that opposite faults can be purged together when one sin is countered by its contrary.
"...was it that you found within your breast a place for avarice when you possessed the wisdom you had nurtured with such care?"
"...my circle was fifth, that in the life I once lived, avarice had been my sin. Know then that I was far from avarice...."
"...see their grain wither. Thus, I joined those who pay for avarice in my purgation, though what brought me here was prodigality, its opposite...."
"Okay, so he's saying, yes, I should be here because of avarice, but the issue is not avarice, okay? The issue is I don't..."
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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