QUOTES by Pierre Corneille
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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
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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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To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
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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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A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
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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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Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
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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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I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
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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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After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
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When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
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To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
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