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God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

Source: Responding to an official who complained because Michelangelo had painted him into the Last Judgment as damned and tormented by devils.
-- Pope Paul III, (Feb 1 1468-1549), Italian religious leader; He was the last of the Renaissance popes and the first pope of the Counter-Reformation, 1534-49; gave approval to create Jesuits, 1540.

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