Pierre Corneille - Polyeucte (1642)

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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.

Pierre Corneille

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

Pierre Corneille

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Pierre Corneille

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.

Pierre Corneille

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Pierre Corneille

Its fury aims to shatter but our altars: It scorns only the gods and never the mortals.

Pierre Corneille

The Christians have one God alone, the lord
Of all, whose will unaided does what he
Resolves. But, if I dare to speak my mind,
Our gods are often ill-assorted, and
Even were their wrath to strike me down at once,
There are too many to be real gods.

Pierre Corneille