The second gluttony tree repeats the pedagogy of denied fruit: longing is provoked and then disciplined by command and exempla.
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"may gain the honor of the first clash, so with longer strides did he leave us, and I remained along my path with those..."
"...not awake too much desire, whose hungering is always in just measure."
"...and where more love is there, that good confers a greater measure of eternal worth. And when there are more souls above love, there's..."
"...spirit of us exactly like a man who uses months to measure time a voice said this on hearing it my master turned round..."
"...directed toward the first good and tends toward secondary goods with measure, it cannot be the cause of evil pleasure. But when it twists..."
"...that i was far from avarice it was my lack of measure thousands of months have punished and if i had not corrected my..."
"...that greek to whom the muses gave their gifts in greatest measure our place is the blind prison its first circle and there we..."
"...which, though it flames within the heart, maintains a sense of measure. My avid eyes were steadfast, staring at that portion of the sky..."
"...the base of the steep slope, which climbs and climbs, would measure three times one man's body. And for as far as my sight..."
"...without thinking on our common mother, I scorned all men past measure, and that scorn brought me my death. The Sienese know how, as..."
"...steps that were constructed in an age when record books and measures could be trusted. So was the slope that plummets there so deeply..."
"...could counterfeit fine metals, and you, if I correctly take your measure, recall how apt I was at aping nature.' Okay, all right, so..."
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