Pierre Corneille Quotes
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When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.
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I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
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Every man of courage is a man of his word.
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La raison et l'amour sont ennemis jurés.
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Faites que l'on vous craigne, et je ne craindrai rien.
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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
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Les gens que vous tuez se portent assez bien.
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I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
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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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Le sujet d'une belle tragédie doit n'être pas vraisemblable.
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Ambition aspires to descend.
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A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
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Ô combien d’actions, combien d’exploits célèbresSont demeurés sans gloire au milieu des ténèbres.
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I would not like a king who could obey.
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Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
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One is often guilty by being too just.
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Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort,Qu’on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.
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Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
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This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
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Ma générosité cède enfin à sa haine.
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Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
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Il est doux de périr après ses ennemis.
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De pareils serviteurs sont les forces des rois,Et de pareils aussi sont au-dessus des lois.