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Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so.
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
Le Cid (1636)
The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.
Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
Le Cid (1636)
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
Horace (1639)
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Tite et Bérénice (Titus and Berenice) (1670)
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
Le Cid (1636)
Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.
Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
Le Cid (1636)
It takes a good memory to keep up a lie.
Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
Oh, how unjustly heaven suffers women
To wield such power o'er the noblest hearts,
And finds delight in seeing even these
So 'neath the conquering sway of such weak beings!
Horace (1640)
Ambition displeases when it has been sated... Having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
Cinna (1641)
The wrinkles on his forehead are the marks which his mighty deeds have engraved.
Le Cid (1636)
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.
Polyeucte (1642)
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
Le Cid (1636)
He who punishes the vanquished fears not the victor.
La Mort de Pompée (The Death of Pompey) (1642)
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
Sertorius (1662)