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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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Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
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I can be forced to live without happiness,
But I will never consent to live without honor.
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The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
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It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
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A service beyond all recompense
Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.
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The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
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I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.
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Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
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When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
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Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
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He who fears not death fears not a threat.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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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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