Inferno 16.118–120

Dante, as Virgil signals into the abyss

Ahi quanto cauti li uomini esser dienno

presso a color che non veggion pur l’ovra,

ma per entro i pensier miran col senno!

Ah, how cautious men ought to be

near those who see not only the act,

but with wisdom gaze inside our thoughts!

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