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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.

Pierre Corneille
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In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
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One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
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Happiness seems made to be shared.
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To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
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We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
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When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
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Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
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A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
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Every man of courage is a man of his word.
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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
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I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
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He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
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He who fears not death fears not a threat.
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Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
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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.
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Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
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Each instant of life is a step toward death.
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As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
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I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
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My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
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To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
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A good memory is needed after one has lied.
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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
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True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
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One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
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He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
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He who pardons easily invites offense.
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Love is a tyrant sparing none.
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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
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It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
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Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
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When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
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Brave men are brave from the very first.
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Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
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My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
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Ambition aspires to descend.
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They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
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This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
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Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
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I would not like a king who could obey.
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He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
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Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
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Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
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