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Dante's famous saying "Go your own way and let others have their say!" that is commonly quoted in China (Guo/Wang's translation) was first seen in the preface to the first edition of Marx's "Das Kapital". Marx quoted it in Italian, Several Western translations of "Das Kapital" are copied directly, and the better ones include the translation in footnotes. According to the German version reprinted by the Hamburg Edition in 1890 and the Chinese version of the complete works of Marx and Engels in China, there are endnotes stating that the quotation comes from the fifth song of "The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio", but neither of them explains the accuracy of the quotation. Said's poetry editor "The Great Thoughts" noticed that the original sentence quoted by Marx was different from Dante's original sentence, which meant "Follow me and let the world talk about it." There was a "Das Kapital" writer. The English translator Ben Fowkes not only provided the translation and original sentences in the footnotes, but also pointed out that Marx changed Dante's original sentences to suit the quotation. The author thinks that a person who is rigorous in his studies, such as Marx, might not be like this, right? Marx was a familiar reader of Dante, and the discrepancy in the above quotations is probably caused by writing from memory. There may be a specific explanation in psychology that practice makes mistakes. Some misquotations that submerge the original sentences and are quite "creative" can also become a good story in the literary world.