Pierre Corneille Quotes
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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
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Happiness seems made to be shared.
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A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
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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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Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
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Le sujet d'une belle tragédie doit n'être pas vraisemblable.
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On a peine à haïr ce qu'on a bien aimé,Et le feu mal éteint est bientôt rallumé.
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Ma mort était ma gloire, et le destin m'en prive.
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A liar is always lavish of oaths.
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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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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
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Love is a tyrant sparing none.
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It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
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He who forgives readily only invites offense.
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Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
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Peace is produced by war.
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Plus l'effort est grand, plus la gloire en est grande.
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Qui peut tout doit tout craindre.
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Ma générosité cède enfin à sa haine.