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Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille (6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian, and one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

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He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.

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Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.

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I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

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Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead

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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

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When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

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When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

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