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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come hither, Messer Bocca! I have just guessed what it was Messer Guido meant us to understand. He told us we were at home in a graveyard, because the ignorant be for all the world like dead men, who, according to the Epicurean doctrine, have no faculty of thought or knowledge."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Guido mine! what fire is it hath consumed you away thus? You burned up your life in science first, and then in public affairs. I beseech you, quench somewhat the ardour of your spirit; comrade, let us husband our strength, and, as Riccardo the blacksmith says, make up a fire...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vita di Spinello." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And so successful was Spinello with his horrible and portentous Production that it was commonly reported--so great is alway the force of fancy--that the said figure (of Lucifer trodden underfoot by St. Michael in the A...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are rich, Spinello. Do you rest, and leave younger men to paint instead of you. It is meet a man should end his days in a gentle, religious quiet. It is tempting God to be for ever raising new and worldly monuments, mere heathen towers of Babel. Quit your colours and your va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spinello, I am Lucifer. Tell me, where had you seen me, that you should paint me as you have, under so ignominious a likeness?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spinello, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spinello, you have read the books that tell of me. You know of my enterprise, and how I forsook Heaven to become the Prince of this World. A tremendous adventure,--and a unique one, had not the Giants in like fashi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you so, retorted the worthy dame;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew all those figures you will go on painting on the walls would end by driving you mad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not mad, protested the painter." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You heap up in your folly ample riches for yourself, and refuse a crumb of bread to the poor man; lo! the day is at hand when burning in cruel flames, you shall beg for a drop of water." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good Sir! he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never fear, Nicolas Nerli, answered the Archangel;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will forget nothing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good St. Michael! think again. You have not put this side of the balance my fine holy-water stoup I gave to San Giovanni, nor the pulpit in Sant' Andrea, where the baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ is depicted life-size. The artist charged me a pretty penny for it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good Sir! dear Archangel! he asked," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! sighed Nicolas Nerli, his face as white as chalk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Duomo, pulpit, basin, Hospital with all its beds, do they weigh no more than a bit of straw, a pinch of down from a bird's breast?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "See ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See, Nicolas Nerli; you are good neither for Heaven nor Hell. Begone! Go back to Florence! multiply through the city the loaves you gave last night with your own hand, in the dusk, when no man saw you--and you shall be saved. It is not enough that Heaven open its doors to the th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vita di Buonamico Buffalmacco." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Buonamico di Cristofano, known as Buffalmacco, a Florentine painter, the same that was pupil of Andrea Tafi, and celebrated as a burlesque character by Messer Giovanni Boccaccio in his _Decameron_ was as w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They who like myself are in possession of noble secrets and excel in their art should keep both mind and hand ceaselessly active to carry out their enterprises, so as to win much wealth and leave a long memory behind them. And if I, old and broken down as I am, spare myself no t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shell" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, ah! he cried to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My lads, he said, addressing the apprentices," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buffalmacco! Buffalmacco, I say! screamed the old fellow, coughing and spitting," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hilloa! but you're a grand sleeper. I'll have you out of your slumbers, I will, though you should be dreaming this very moment that the eleven thousand virgins are slipping into your bed, begging you to teach 'em what's what." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're devils, he thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holy Virgin, Mother of God, which for Thy merits wast exalted alive to Heaven, stretch forth Thy hand full of grace and mercy to me, to lift me up to that blessed Paradise where Thou sittest on a chair of gold." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow we will provide ourselves with a good stout rope and a pulley, and I undertake to give you the same evening a highly diverting exhibition." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up, master Apollonius! Up with you, apprentices! Day's come; Phœbus has blown out the sky candles! Quick's the word! 'Life is short, and art long.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is your bed so delicious, eh? Have you got Helen of Troy there, you're so loath to q...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look you, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now is not a painter's trade a good one and deserving of all praise? it wins him riches in this world and happiness in the next. For be sure Our Lord Jesus Christ will welcome gratefully in His holy Paradise craftsmen like myself who have portrayed His veritable likeness." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holy Virgin, Mother of God, which for Thy merits wast exalted alive to Heaven, stretch forth Thy hand full of grace and mercy to me, to lift me up to Paradise!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop, stop, sweet Lady! I never asked it should be now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good Lady! sweet Lady! don't pull so! Ho, there! Let go, I say!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must be deaf, you wooden-head! Let go, _bitch of a Madonna_!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jesus, unless you stop your Blessed Mother this instant, the roof of my house, which cost a fine penny, will most certainly be burst up. For I see for sure I'm going slap through it. Stop! stop! I can hear the tiles cracking." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all up with me; pull me out of this. I'm a dying man!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My lads, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My master, said Apollonius pityingly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not for worlds! put in the old man;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho! gentle Buffalmacco, here's somewhat to drink to the health of Epicurus and his disciples." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buffalmacco, added the young nobleman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! spare him, they said to the Painter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do take care the soldiers don't see him and kill him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "For love of you, dear sisters, I will protect him all I can. But these murderers are filled with...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My lad, she bade him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will inform my master, he went on;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Lord Bishop, you are good enough to admire my style of painting; but your baboon prefers a different. What need to have had me summoned here, when you had a master painter in your own household? It may be he lacked experience. But now he has nothing left to learn, my presence...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The scamp has given us the slip; an I catch him, I'll bang his behind with this paving-stone!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the dying girl said, 'Satan, I give over my body to you along with my soul.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What an artist dies in me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! the loss to Art! the loss to Art!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Satan, best beloved Satan! take thou my soul and my body; Satan, gentle Satan! hear my prayer: take, take my body along with my soul." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All the life of man is full of pain, and there is no surcease of sorrow. If there be aught better elsewhere than this present life, it is hid shrouded in the clouds of darkness." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alas! he told him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have nothing but my gown, and the Superior has forbidden me to cut it in two so as to give away the half. Therefore I cannot divide it with you. But if you love me, my son, you will take it off me whole and undivide...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear little children, will you suffer me to share your game?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Truly and indeed the man is out of his wits." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look! little Brother Giovanni's here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come away; the fellow is a mere dunce and dullard!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A kind thief took my gown, and some children deemed me worthy to play with them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He feels no compunction, they declared," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are very right, my Brethren; I deserve these punishments, and worse ones still. I am good for nothing but foolishly to waste and squander the goods of God and of my Order." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hear him! he talks like a hypocrite; that honeyed voice of h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My brethren, he said at length," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This, Brother, is the penance I lay upon you. In the name of that holy obedience you owe St. Francis, I command you go forth into the country, and the first beggar you meet, beg him to strip you of your t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In very truth, my Brethren, this man is the good God's plaything." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go, Brother, and enjoy your meal. I will guard the Church, as Our Lord would have it guarded." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have nothing, the holy man replied;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those little bells are but idle vanities. The true ornament of yonder Altar is the body of St. Francis, which reposes naked under the flags with a black stone for a pillow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never trouble, my brother, about the little bells that belonged to the lamp. I have given them away to a poor woman who had need of them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brother Bonaventure, free my mind of the doubt that is tormenting me, and tell me: Can an ignorant man love God with as great love as a learned Doctor of the Church?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will tell you the truth, Fra Giovanni; a poor old woman may not only...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho! you poor women, ignorant and simple-minded, you shall be set in Heaven above Brother Bonaventure." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go, beg your bread from door to door," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is laughing at us, said the townsmen to each other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is a born fool--or say rather a vagabond impostor and a drunkard. He has over-drunk himself with wine. It were a sin and a shame to give him so much as a crumb of bread from our ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O God, how good art Thou, to send Thy poor man bread by the hand of one of Thy Angels; O blessed poverty! O very glorious and most sumptuous poverty!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Woe, woe to the rich!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are the chosen sons of Jesus Christ." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My brother, you are Lucido, and no precious stone is purer than your heart, in the eyes of God." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Friend Lucido, dear Lamb of the Lord, while the very air they breathe in this place is pestilence, in the gardens of Santa Maria degli Angel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Open! he cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay there outside, with the man. You are a senseless fool to expose your brethren thus to contagion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Brother! said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am grieved you are made sad because of me." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, Fra Giovanni, for having given you offence. I am come hither now to share your meal." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forasmuch as I am the Enemy of Mankind and the Adversary of God, therefore will I tempt these Monks, and I will tell them what is kept hid by Him who is their Friend. Lo! I will afflict these men of Religion by telling them the truth, and I will darken their spirit, uttering to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My house is the house of joy and delight, because it is the house of poverty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lo! here is one of those men I am come to tempt" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give me an alms for the love of Him who is your friend, and whom I am not worthy so much as to name." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It happens so, I have with me a little silver cup a nobleman of the countryside gave me, to have it melted down and used for the Altar ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peace be with you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This Bishop, who gives me the salutation of peace, was doubtless in his lifetime a sainted Pontiff and a blessed Martyr unshakable in his constancy. That is why Jesus Christ has changed the wooden cross to a golden in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fra Giovanni, the Venetian ladies amuse their leisure and show their adroitness in fitting a multitude of little pieces of ivory into a box of cedar-wood, which at the set-off seemed all too small to contain so many. In the same fashion I will pack ideas into your head that no o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Friend, be comforted. I am the Evil Spirit." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I salute you, because it is I who visit the simple-minded, and announce the mysteries to virgins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By virtue of this fire shall your lips remain pure, and they shall glow with eloquence. I have burned them, and they shall be burned. Your...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For Thy reason is contrary to the reason of men. Nevertheless Thy will be done." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Verily I say unto you, Bankers and Money-changers shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, nor yet bakers, nor dealers in drugs, nor such as practise the trade of wool, which is the boast of the City of the Lily. Forasmuch as they give a price to gold, and make a profit out o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peace be with you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peace be with you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall have no peace till I am dead. Begone, cursed black crow! you wish me peace; that shows you are a glozing cheat! Go to, and caw to simpler fools t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And labour shall be a joyful thing, when it is no longer paid. 'Tis gold only, the cursed gold, that makes the sharing uneven. When each man shall go severally to the Mountain for his stone, and carry his load to the city on his own back, the stone shall weigh light and it shall...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These have done well, and we shall reward them. For it behoves that goodness be rewarded, and it is our bounden duty to pay the price of it, being as we are the first and foremost citizens of the city." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is goodness?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who was it spoke?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was a Monk, by name Giovanni, who is the disgrace of his Cloister. He goes naked through the streets, carrying his clothes on his head, and gives himsel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leave the man in peace, so that he may hear me and be confounded. He asks what goodness is, because goodness is not in him and he is devoid of virtue. I answer him, 'The knowledge of goodness resides in virtuous men; and good citizens carry within them a proper respect for the l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God was not with him; but He is with the humble and simple-minded. Learn not to will and He will put His will in you. Seek not to guess the riddles of the Beast. Be ignorant, and you shall not fear to go astray. 'Tis only wise men that are deceived." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If ever, brother, we are restored to liberty, seeing you think as I do, you shall help me to persuade the citizens that they ought to set up above them the empire of just laws." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Set not up laws against laws, nor raise tables of marble and tables of brass before men's eyes. For whatever is written on the tables of the Law, is written in letters of blood." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Comrade, you have spoken well. Know you, I will never set up law against law, right rule against crooked rule; my wish is to destroy the law by violence and compel the citizens to live thenceforth in happy freedom. And know further that I have slain both judges and soldiers, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we have not the good fortune to be poor in very deed, let us not make ourselves rich men in spirit, and heartbound to the things of this world that make folk unjust and unhappy. Let us suffer persecution with gentleness, and be those chosen vessels that turn into balm the gal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are alongside of the guilty because you are not on our side. For whosoever is not with good citizens is with evil." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I said, 'I am the friend of the wretched.' But you never thought I was your friend, because in your pride, you know not that you are wretched. Nevertheless the wretchedness of the master is more cruel than that of the slave. My tender pity for your woes only made you think I was...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is your name, subtle sir, that slips through prison walls?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Brother, what use to tell you the names folk give me? For you I will bear the one you shall call me by. Know this, I am come to you full of helpfulness and goodwill, and be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wherefore I say to you, Fra Giovanni, seeing you have chosen peradventure to take Truth for your Lady and darling, it behoves you greatly to know concerning her all that may be known. Well then, know that she is _white_. And from her appearance, which I will describe you, you sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Messer Plato, what is purity? I wait your answer, Messer Plato. Oh! you say. Consciousness is pure. Consciousness only when it is devoid of everything which may be seen, heard, handled, in one word proved by the senses. You grant me further,--yes! you nod your cap, that Truth wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From which we must not conclude, I have told you before, that she is pure. Consider the Lady Eletta, of Verona, whose thighs were like milk; think you for this they were abstract from the world in general, withdrawn in the invisible and intangible, which is the pure, according t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, if this character is not purity, as I have just established it cannot be in argument with Plato himself, it is conceivable it may be impurity, which impurity is the necessary condition of all existing things. For have we not just seen how the pure has neither life nor consc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Know then that Truth, your well-beloved mistress, is made up of elements compacted of wet and dry, hard and soft, cold and hot, and that it is with this lady as with women of common humanity, in whom soft flesh and warm blood are not diffused equally in all the body." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such is the learning we are taught at School. I am a Theologian, I!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I regret to leave you, friend; but I cannot tarry longer with you. For I have many contradictions to pose to many men. I can taste no rest day nor night; but I must be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O Lord! Thy loving-kindness is infinite toward me, and Thy favour manifest, seeing Thou hast so willed I should lie on a dunghill, like Job and Lazarus, whom Thou didst love so well. And Thou hast given me to know how filthy straw is a soft and sweet pillow to the just man. And ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These mottoes are like the flowers young men and maidens pluck in the water-meadows by the Arno, to make them into posies. For these flowers are readily gathered together by the tails, while the heads keep separate and fight amongst themselves in hue and brilliancy. And it is th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On this rock have I built my Church and committed thereto the crowns of all the world." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I am never to find on the wheel of the universe the pure, white Truth, the immaculate and candid Truth, I would find." }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Behold that same white Truth you were fain to contemplate. And know it is built up of the divers contradictory truths, in the same fashion as all colours go to make up white. The little children of Viterbo know this, for having spun their tops striped with many colours on the fl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Friend, never set your heart on reading what is not written. Only know this, that whatsoever a man has thought or believed in his brief lifetime is a parcel of this infinite Truth; and that, even as much dirt and disorder enter into what we call the order of nature, that is the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have no hope or wish left to know Truth, if, as has just been manifested to me, she only shows herself in contradictions and inconsistencies. How shall I dare by my death to be witness and martyr of what men must believe, now the vision of the wheel of the universe has made me...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take his chains off him. For every person accused should appear freely before us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why does the Judge pronounce words that are not straight?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Giovanni, bad man that you are, being thrown in pri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Speak! tell us who are the men of violence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are for milking the cow that has given all her milk, and would learn of me more than I know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your tongue has discharged the arrow of your disco...