There’s other good that does not make man happy; ’Tis not felicity, ’tis not the good Essence, of every good the fruit and root. The love that yields itself too much to this 861 Above us is lamented in three circles; But how tripartite it may be described, I say not, that thou seek it for thyself.”
Virgil’s discourse of love—The abbot of San Zeno.