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

— Vittorio Alfieri

D'uomo è il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.

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

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

I willed, and always willed, and strongly willed.

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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

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