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.
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"These words at first brought something of a smile to Thaddeus. Then he answered, Every word you speak to me is a dear sign..."
"...know that when a sin is countered, by another fault, directly opposite to it, then here, both sins see their grain wither. Thus, I..."
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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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