“No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Non è mai alcuna cosa sì disperata, che non vi sia qualche via da poterne sperare.
Act I, scene i
The Mandrake (1524)

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Non è mai alcuna cosa sì disperata, che non vi sia qualche via da poterne sperare.

The Mandrake (1524)

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