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The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Il reo
D'un delitto è chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
La pena spetta.

Original text (French)

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Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

I willed, and always willed, and strongly willed.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

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