See it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret on Wiktionary
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"イタリアの政治思想家、ニッコロ・マキャヴェリの書簡（『The Letters of Machiavelli』）から。"
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"行動せずに後悔するより、行動して後悔する方が賢明である。"
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"lang": "イタリア語",
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"word": "È meglio pentirsi di aver fatto che pentirsi di non aver fatto"
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"word": "やらない後悔よりやる後悔"
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"word": "Melius est agere et paenitere quam non agere et paenitere"
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"イタリアの政治思想家、ニッコロ・マキャヴェリの書簡（『The Letters of Machiavelli』）から。"
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