Pierre Corneille Quotes
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Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti.
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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
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L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.
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He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
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He who pardons easily invites offense.
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C'est un crime d'État que d'en pouvoir commettre.
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
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La façon de donner vaut mieux que ce qu'on donne.
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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
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Brave men are brave from the very first.
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As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
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A liar is always lavish of oaths.
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I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
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I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
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Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
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Every man of courage is a man of his word.
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One is often guilty by being too just.
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My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
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To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
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La raison et l'amour sont ennemis jurés.
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When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.