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Pierre Corneille - Cinna (1644)

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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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Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

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Ambition displeases when it has been sated... Having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

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An example is often a deceptive mirror,
And the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts,
Is not always found written in things past.


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After having won a scepter, few are so generous
As to disdain the pleasures of ruling.


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The worst of all states is the people's state.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille
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Born: June 6, 1606
Died: October 1, 1684 (aged 78)
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