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Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
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It is an imprudence common to kings To listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
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Love is a tyrant, sparing none.
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Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
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Such subjects are the very strength of kings, And are thus above the law.
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I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence
Cannot imagine being under suspicion.
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True, I am young, but for souls nobly born
Valor doesn't await the passing of years.
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And the combat ceased for want of combatants.
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Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.
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To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
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He who pardons easily invites offense.
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Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.
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Clemency is the noblest trait
Which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
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They were more than kings, now they are less than slaves.
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They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
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He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
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It is hard to hate what one has loved,
And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
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One is often guilty by being too just.
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We never taste a perfect joy;
Our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
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A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: He who wants everything must risk very little.
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It takes a good memory to keep up a lie.
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A true king is neither husband nor father;
He considers his throne and nothing else.
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Reason and love are sworn enemies.
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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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Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Pierre Corneille
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Born:
June 6, 1606
Died:
October 1, 1684
(aged 78)
Bio:
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine.
Known for:
Le Cid (1637)
The Liar (1644)
Cinna (1644)
Polyeucte (1642)
L'Illusion Comique (1639)
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