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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Like to like" is a proverb older than the time of Dante, whose answer it was to Can della Scala, when reproached by him that the society of the most frivolous persons was more sought after at court than that of the poet and philosopher. "Given the amuser, the amusee must also be given."
"O! ressource assuree, Viens ranimer leur langueur desoeuvree: Leur ame vide est du moins amusee Par l'avarice en plaisir deguisee." Gaming relieved me from that insuperable listlessness by which I was oppressed. I became interested I became agitated; in short, I found a new kind of stimulus, and I indulged in it most intemperately.
"You thought!" The speaker raised her shoulders fiercely. "Comme toujours, vous vous êtes trop bien amusée pour vous souvenir de mes instructions voil
Petrarch reports of him that being at Can della Scala's court, and blamed one day for his gloom and taciturnity, he answered in no courtier-like way. Dante answered bitterly: "No, not strange; your Highness is to recollect the Proverb, Like to Like;" given the amuser, the amusee must also be given!
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