“The world knows nothing of its greatest men.”
Act I, sc. 5.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
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Book I, Ch. 39
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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to someone else.”
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“In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist