Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Miguel de Unamuno

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• The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

  

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  • Individual
  • Faces
  • Heroism