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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
Glory
Risk
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille
Power
Universe
It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
Pierre Corneille
Lie
Memory
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
Pierre Corneille
Father
Nothing
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
Pierre Corneille
Love
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Pierre Corneille
Crime
Shame
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Pierre Corneille
Feelings
Authority
Reason
My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
Pierre Corneille
Hope
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Pierre Corneille
Age
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Pierre Corneille
Enemy
Fate
Pity
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
Pierre Corneille
Life
Grave
Peace is produced by war.
Pierre Corneille
Peace
War
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille
Punishment
Vengeance
One is often guilty by being too just.
Pierre Corneille
Being
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
Pierre Corneille
Love
Enemies
Reason