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Its fury aims to shatter but our altars:
It scorns only the gods and never the mortals.

— Pierre Corneille Polyeucte (1642)

Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,
Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.

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Stratonice, act I, scene iii | Referring to the early Christian church.

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