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Let Us Attend To The Present, And As To The Future We Shall Know How To Manage When The Occasion Arrives.

-Pierre Corneille

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Let Us Attend To The Present, And As To The Future We Shall Know How To Manage When The Occasion Arrives.

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I Have Deserved Neither So Much Honor Or So Much Disgrace.

Guess, If You Can, And Choose, If You Dare. [lat., Devine, Si Tu Peux, Et Choisis, Si Tu L'oses.]

Heaven Absolves All Crimes Committed To Gain A Throne Once Heaven Gives It To Us.

Time Is A Great Manager: It Arranges Things Well.

I See, I Know, I Believe, I Am Undeceived.

Do Your Duty And Leave The Rest To Heaven.

Violence Is Just, Where Kindness Is Vain.

One Is Often Guilty By Being Too Just.

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

Kindness Acts Not Always As You Think; A Hated Hand Renders It Odious.

One Half Of My Life Has Put The Other Half In The Grave.

After Having Won A Scepter, Few Are So Generous As To Disdain The Pleasures Of Ruling.

In Relating Our Misfortunes, We Often Feel Them Lightened.

It Is Hard To Hate What One Has Loved, And A Half-extinguished Fire Is Soon Relit.

A Liar Is Always Lavish Of Oaths. [fr., Un Menteur Est Toujours Prodigue De Serments.]

Master Of The Universe But Not Of Myself, I Am The Only Rebel Against My Absolute Power.

Those Who Easily Forgive Invite Offenses.

Rome Is No Longer In Rome, It Is Here Where I Am.

All Great Virtues Become Great Men.

He Who Fears Not Death Fears Not A Threat.

These Flattering Mirrors Reflect Imperfectly What Is Within; The Countenance Is Often A Gay Deceiver. What Defects Of Mind Lie Hidden Under Its Beauty! What Fair Exteriors Conceal Base Souls!

The People You Killed Seem To Be In Excellent Health.

He Who Forgives Readily Only Invites Offense.

It Is The Crime Not The Scaffold Which Is The Disgrace.

Ambition Becomes Displeasing When It Is Once Satiated; There Is A Reaction; And As Our Spirit, Till Our Last Sigh, Is Always Aiming Toward Some Object, It Falls Back On Itself, Having Nothing Else On Which To Rest; And Having Reached The Summit, It Longs To Descend.

Danger Breeds Best On Too Much Confidence.

Flee An Enemy Who Knows Your Weakness.

Guess If You Can, Choose If You Dare.

We Never Taste A Perfect Joy; Our Happiest Successes Are Mixed With Sadness.

I Believe Everything To Be Just When A King Ordains It.

He Who Does Not Fear Death Cares Naught For Threats.

Rome Alone Can Resist Rome.

Love Lives On Hope, And Dies When Hope Is Dead; It Is A Flame Which Sinks For Lack Of Fuel.

He Who Can Live In Infamy Is Unworthy Of Life.

Severity Is Allowable Where Gentleness Has No Effect.

When There Is No Peril In The Fight There Is No Glory In The Triumph.

The Crime And Not The Scaffold Makes The Shame.

What Destroys One Man Preserves Another.

I Love You Much Less Than My God, But Much More Than Myself.

Your Christians, Whom One Persecutes In Vain, Have Something In Them That Surpasses The Human. They Lead A Life Of Such Innocence,that The Heavens Owe Them Some Recognition: That They Arise The Stronger The More They Are Beaten Down Is Hardly The Result Of Common Virtues.

He Who Plays Advisor Is No Longer Ambassador.

Brave Men Are Brave From The Very First.

The King, Just And Prudent, Wants Only Those Things Which He Can Get.

The Fire Which Seems Extinguished Often Slumbers Beneath The Ashes.

Let Us Attend To The Present, And As To The Future We Shall Know How To Manage When The Occasion Arrives.

How Much Must I Overcome Before I Triumph?

There Are Secret Ties, There Are Sympathies, By The Sweet Relationship Of Which Souls That Are Well Matched Attach Themselves To Each Other, And Are Affected By I Know Not What, Which Cannot Be Explained

One Ought To Have A Good Memory When He Has Told A Lie

Happiness Seems Made To Be Shared.

Those Who Resolve To Conquer Or Die, Are Rarely Conquered.

Each Instant Of Life Is A Step Toward Death.

All Evils Are Equal When They Are Extreme. [fr., Et Tous Maux Sont Pareils Alors Qu'ils Sont Extremes.]

By Speaking Of Our Misfortunes We Often Relieve Them. [fr., A Raconter Ses Maux Souvent On Les Soulage.]

Deceit Is The Game Of Petty Spirits, And That Is By Nature A Woman's Quality.

And The Combat Ceased, For Want Of Combatants.

The Universe Has No Prince Or King That It [rome] Would Consider Equal To Its Humblest Citizen.

Good Fortune Leads One To The Highest Glory, But To Renounce It Calls For Equal Courage.

To Win Without Risk Is To Triumph Without Glory.

A Good Memory Is Needed Once We Have Lied. [fr., Il Faut Bonne Memoire Apres Qu'on A Menti.]

He Who Allows Himself To Be Insulted Deserves To Be.

Oh, How Sweet It Is To Pity The Fate Of An Enemy Who Can No Longer Threaten Us!

Rome, If You Do Not Wish Me To Betray You, Make Enemies That I Can Hate!

He Who Is Hated By All Can Not Expect To Live Long.

A First Impulse Was Never A Crime.

Force Is Legitimate Where Gentleness Avails Not.

Self-love Is The Source Of All Our Other Loves.

Treachery Is Noble When Aimed At Tyranny.

A Liar Is Always Lavish Of Oaths.

A True King Is Neither Husband Nor Father; He Considers His Throne And Nothing Else.

It Is A Crime Against The State To Be Powerful Enough To Commit One.

In The Service Of Caesar, Everything Is Legitimate.

Liberty May Be Of No More Use Than Stirring Up The Flame Of Civil Wars; Then, By Disorder Fatal To The World, One Wants No King, The Other Wants No Equal.

In Recounting Our Woes, We Often Soothe Them.

If Anyone Wants To Know What Elephants Are Like, They Are Like People Only More So.

Every Man Of Courage Is A Man Of His Word.

One Often Calms One's Grief By Recounting It.

Oh Rage! Oh Despair! Oh Age, My Enemy!

Obedience Is A Hard Profession.

I Can Be Forced To Live Without Happiness, But I Will Never Consent To Live Without Honor.

It Is The Gift Of Heaven And Not Of Reason.

To Myself Alone Do I Owe My Fame. [fr., Je Ne Dois Qu'a Moi Seul Toute Ma Renommee.]

He Should Be Envied Who When His Strength Is Spent Lays Down His Life. Old Age Reserves A Melancholy Fate For Noble Souls Before Their Life Is Done.

He Who Pardons Easily Invites Offense.

Your Heart Is Mine; There I Reign. I Am Content.

The Greater The Effort, The Greater The Glory.

This Dark Brightness That Falls From The Stars.

Have Others Fear You, And I Will Have No Fear.

I Am Master Of Myself As Of The Universe, So I Am; So I Wish To Be.

Heaven Often Regulates Effects By Their Causes, And Pays The Wicked What They Have Deserved.

Clemency Is The Noblest Trait Which Can Reveal A True Monarch To The World.

It Is An Imprudence Common To Kings To Listen To Too Much Advice And To Err In Their Choice.

Whoever Can Do As He Pleases, Commands When He Entreats.

When Obedience Is So Impious, Revolt Is A Necessity.

The Manner Of Giving Is Worth More Than The Gift.

Love Is A Tyrant Sparing None.

Your Arm Is Unvanquished, But Not Invincible.

Sir, What Does It Matter Whom I Serve, So Long As I Am Right?

I Am Roman, Alas, Because Horace Is Roman.

I Would Tell You I Love You, Sir, If I Knew What It Was To Love.

Every Brave Man Is A Man Of His Word; To Such Base Vices He Cannot Stoop, And Shuns More Than Death The Shame Of Lying.

He On Whom Heaven Confers A Sceptre Knows Not The Weight Till He Bears It.

Death Was To Be My Glory, But Destiny Has Refused It.

Patience And Time Conquer All Things.

They Who Overcome Their Desires Once Can Overcome Them Always.

I Am Young, It Is True; But In Noble Souls Valor Does Not Wait For Years.

He Who Has Resolved To Conquer Or Die Is Seldom Conquered; Such Noble Despair Perishes With Difficulty.

When A Woman Has The Gift Of Silence She Possesses A Quality Above The Vulgar. It Is A Gift Of Heaven Seldom Bestowed; Without A Little Miracle It Cannot Be Accomplished; And Nature Suffers Violence When Heaven Puts A Woman In The Humor Of Observing Silence.

Happiness Is Meant To Be Shared.

Just Vengeance Does Not Call For Punishment.

I Would Not Like A King Who Could Obey.

I Agree To, Or Rather Aspire To, My Doom.

How Sweet To Die After One's Enemies.

The Man Who Pardons Easily Courts Injury.

To He Who Avenges A Father, Nothing Is Impossible

Nothing Is Impossible

When The Patient Loves His Disease, How Unwilling He Is To Allow A Remedy To Be Applied.

Among Wellborn Spirits Courage Does Not Depend On Age.

It Is Only Blood That Can Wash Away Such An Outrage; Die Or Kill.

The Subject Of A Good Tragedy Must Not Be Realistic.

To Take Revenge Halfheartedly Is To Court Disaster; Either Condemn Or Crown Your Hatred.

Ambition Displeases When It Has Been Sated ... Having Reached The Peak, It Aspires To Descend.

He Who Allows Himself To Be Insulted Deserves To Be So; And Insolence, If Unpunished, Increases! [lat., Qui Se Laisse Outrager, Merite Qu'on L'outrage Et L'audace Impunie Enfle Trop Un Courage.]

Just As We Never Taste Happiness In Perfection, Our Most Fortunate Successes Are Mixed With Sadness. So Too We Never Taste Sadness Completely, As Things Could Always Be Worse In Some Way And For This We Can Be Grateful.

A Monarch Must Sometimes Rule Even Himself: He Who Wants Everything Must Risk Very Little.

My Sweetest Hope Is To Lose Hope

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To Die For One's Country Is Such A Worthy Fate That All Compete For So Beautiful A Death.

It Matters More How One Gives Than What One Gives

The Greater The Risk, The Sweeter The Fruit.

Peace Is Produced By War.

It Is A Law, Of The Gods Which Is Never Broken, To Sell Somewhat Dearly The Great Benefits Which They Confer On Us.

He Who Despises Life Is His Life's Master.

A Liar Is Full Of Oaths.

Ambition Aspires To Descend

Ah, Though A Roman, I Am Not Less A Man.

For Souls Nobly Born, Valor Doesn't Await The Passing Of Years

He Who Allows Me To Rule Is In Fact My Master

My Reason, It's True, Controls My Feelings, But Whatever Its Authority, It Doesn't Rule Them So Much As Tyrannize Them.

Omnipotence Is Bought With Ceaseless Fear.

Happiness Seems Made To Be Shared. [fr., Le Bonheur Semble Fait Pour Etre Partage.]

How Delicious Is Pleasure After Torment!

To Myself Alone Do I Owe My Fame.

All Great Virtues Become Great Men. [fr., Toutes Grandes Vertus Conviennent Aux Grands Hommes.]

Be It Only For A Day, It Is Still A Glory Without Equal To Be Master Of The World Just That Day.

Generosity Is The Accompaniment Of High Birth; Pity And Gratitude Are Its Attendants.

The Worst Of All States Is The Democratic State.

As For Our Gods, We Have A Few Too Many To Be True.

Who Is All-powerful Should Fear Everything.

Brave Men Are Brave From The Very First. [fr., Les Hommes Valeureux Le Sont Au Premier Coup.]

Here Honor Binds Me, And I Wish To Satisfy It.

If You Betray Me, Can I Take A Better Revenge Than To Love The Person You Hate?

Desire Increases When Fulfillment Is Postponed.

Clemency Is The Surest Proof Of A True Monarch. [fr., La Clemence Est La Plus Belle Marque Qui Fasse A L'univers Connaitre Un Vrai Monqrque.]

Ambition, Having Reached The Summit, Longs To Descend.

One Doesn't Wish To See Those To Whom One Owes So Much.

As Our Self-interests Differ, So Do Our Feelings.

Your Virtue Raises Your Glory Above Your Crime.

I Don't Know How To Defend Myself: Surprised Innocence Cannot Imagine Being Under Suspicion.

Doubt, But Still Hate!

All Evils Are Equal When They Are Extreme.

It Takes Good Memory To Keep Up A Lie

As Great As Kings May Be, They Are What We Are: They Can Err Like Other Men.

Alas, I Emerge From One Disaster To Fall Into A Worse.

We Triumph Without Glory When We Conquer Without Danger.

It Is The Guilt, Not The Scaffold, Which Constitutes The Shame.

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