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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: ourselves for thousands, it becomes us no less to spare ourselves for
thousands.
Egmont. He who spares himself becomes an object of suspicion ever to
himself.
Orange. He who is sure of his own motives can, with confidence, advance
or retreat.
Egmont. Your own act will render certain the evil that you dread.
Orange. Wisdom and courage alike prompt us to meet an inevitable evil.
Egmont. When the danger is imminent the faintest hope should be taken
into account.
Orange We have not the smallest footing left; we are on the very brink of
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