9 quotes
I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.
Polyeucte (1642)
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Polyeucte (1642)
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Polyeucte (1642)
Its fury aims to shatter but our altars:
It scorns only the gods and never the mortals.
Polyeucte (1642)
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
Polyeucte (1642)
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
Polyeucte (1642)
My reason, it’s true, controls my feelings,
But whatever its authority,
It doesn’t rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Polyeucte (1642)
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
Polyeucte (1642)
The Christians have one God alone, the lord
Of all, whose will unaided does what he
Resolves. But, if I dare to speak my mind,
Our gods are often ill-assorted, and
Ev'n were their wrath to strike me down at once,
There are too many to be real gods.
Polyeucte (1642)