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Famous Pierre Corneille Quotes
“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
“A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.”
“After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.”
“Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.”
“I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.”
“It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.”
“Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.”
“To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.”
“When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.”
“The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.”
“They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.”
“My sweetest hope is to lose hope”
“For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years”