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Quotes from Histoires tragiques — François de Belleforest

1530–1583 France

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"Who was ever sorrowful to behold the murderer of innocents brought to his end, or what man weepeth to see a just massacre done upon a tyrant, usurper, villain, and bloody personage?"

Histoires tragiques (1564)

Hereof the Athenian laws bear witness, whose custom was to erect images in remembrance of those men that, revenging the injuries of the commonwealth, boldly massacred tyrants and such as troubled the peace and welfare of the citizens.

Histoires tragiques (1564)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: François de Belleforest (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.