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One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Disraeli

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Whatever great advantages nature may give, it is not she alone, but fortune also that makes the hero.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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