Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Zum Autor"Hope is the last thing that dies in man."
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"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
"It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them."
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"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."