French - Dramatist | June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Pierre Corneille
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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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Reason and love are sworn enemies.
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After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
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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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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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One is often guilty by being too just.
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They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
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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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He who pardons easily invites offense.
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Each instant of life is a step toward death.
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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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