Quotations From PIERRE CORNEILLE

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• 71.

  He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Nicomède, in Nicomède, act 3, sc. 3 (1651).
• 72.

  My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Pauline, in Polyeucte, act 2, sc. 2 (1641).
• 73.

  The combat ended for want of combatants.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Rodrigue, in The Cid, act 4, sc. 3 (1637). Rodrigue recounts the defeat of an army having lost all their soldiers.
• 74.

  Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Sabina, in Horace, act 1, sc. 1 (1641). Sabina, Roman by marriage, speaking when Rome fights her native Alba.
  
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• 75.

  I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Sabina, in Horace, act 1, sc. 1 (1641). Sabina, Roman by marriage to Horace, distressed when Rome fights her native Alba.
• 76.

  Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Sertorius, in Sertorius, act 3, sc. 1 (1662). Sertorius describes his exile from a Rome fallen under tyranny.
• 77.

  To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Rodrigue, in The Cid, act 2, sc. 2 (1637).
  
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• 78.

  He who fears not death fears not a threat.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. The Count, in The Cid, act 2, sc. 1 (1637).
  
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• 79.

  I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. The Count, in The Cid, act 2, sc. 1 (1637).
  
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• 80.

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

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. The Emperor Augustus, in Cinna, act 2, sc. 1 (1641). Augustus considers voluntary abdication.