Someone Who Has Wronged You Has Fallen Ill!

Someone who once wronged you has fallen ill! Not an open enemy, perhaps; it may be that you are the only soul in the world who knows the offense they committed against you. These are the early hours of the first flush of triumph, and you must keep your wits and your blood about you!

Dante's Inferno, Canto VII

I didn't quite catch whatever Plutus said – I think it was something about pepper? Aleppo pepper, salt and pepper, something – I don't know, I don't speak Dutch (or whatever they speak in Hell.)

There Are Too Many Little Renaissances

The "Ottonian Renaissance," the "Visigoth Renaissance," the "Carolingian Renaissance" -- everything can't be a Renaissance, you know. You've got to have at least something to Naissance first.