Caminábamos con los diez demonios, ¡fiera compaña!, mas en la taberna con borrachos, con santos en la iglesia. 15 - Dante Alighieri

These innumerable seekers of safety first, and last, who take no risk either of suffering in a good cause or of scandal in a bad one, are here manifestly, nakedly, that which they were in life, the waste and rubbish of the universe, of no account to the world, unfit for Heaven and barely admitted to Hell. They have no need to die, for they ‘never were alive’.

When virtue lights in us 11 a fire of love, that love ignites another within the soul that sees its burning.

This beast, at which thou criest out,
Suffers not any one to pass her way
But so doth harass him, that she destroys him;

And has a nature so malign and ruthless
That never doth she glut her greedy will,
And after food is hungrier than before.