Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
Ta vertu met ta gloire au-dessus de ton crime.
Original text (French)
Notes from Wikiquote
Tulle, act V, scene iii.
Original text (French)
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy, when we have no longer anything to fear from him!
He who is insulted has a right to be outraged, as unpunished audacity only increases!
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