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“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
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“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
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“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”
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“The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.”
― Le Menteur
― Le Menteur
“The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.”
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“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.”
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“Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;
It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.”
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It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.”
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“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
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“A good memory is needed after one has lied. ”
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“Ah! qu'avec peu d'effet on entend la raison,
Quand le cœur est atteint d'un si charmant poison!
Et lorsque le malade aime sa maladie,
Qu'il a peine à souffrir que l'on y remédie!”
― Le Cid
Quand le cœur est atteint d'un si charmant poison!
Et lorsque le malade aime sa maladie,
Qu'il a peine à souffrir que l'on y remédie!”
― Le Cid
“Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes: Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.”
― Le Cid
― Le Cid
“The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders.”
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“L'amour fait les égalités et ne les cherche pas.”
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“Aux âmes bien nées, La valeur n’attend point le nombre des années.”
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“A first impulse was never a crime. ”
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“لن يتسنى لنا أن نذوق غبطة ً غير مشوبة، ولا تتحقق أمانينا إلا وتخالطها الكآبة، فكلما واتتنا حوادث الدهر تخللها من الهموم ما يكدر علينا صفو مسراتنا.”
― Le Cid
― Le Cid
“Au milieu de tant de perils, il me reste MOI.”
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“Wer es zulässt, dass man ihn beleidigt, verdient es.”
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“Laksanakanlah kewajiban anda sebaik-baiknya, selebihnya serahkan kepada Tuhan.”
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“Père, maîtresse, honneur, amour,
noble et dure contrainte, aimable tyrannie,
tous mes plaisirs sons morts, ou ma gloire ternie.
L'un me rend malhereux, l'autre indigne du jour.
Cher et cruel espoir d'une âme généreuse,
mais ensemble amoureuse, digne ennemi de mon plus grand bonheur.
Fer qui causes ma peine,
M'es-tu donné pour venger mon honneur?
M'est-tu donné pour perdre ma Chimène?”
― Le Cid
noble et dure contrainte, aimable tyrannie,
tous mes plaisirs sons morts, ou ma gloire ternie.
L'un me rend malhereux, l'autre indigne du jour.
Cher et cruel espoir d'une âme généreuse,
mais ensemble amoureuse, digne ennemi de mon plus grand bonheur.
Fer qui causes ma peine,
M'es-tu donné pour venger mon honneur?
M'est-tu donné pour perdre ma Chimène?”
― Le Cid
“These little rulers who may rule a year,
Who see their pow’r will be for such short time,
Seek to abort the fruit of well made plans,
Lest it belong to those who follow them.
As they have little share of public goods,
They try to harvest much for their own selves,
Each man, they know, will gladly pardon them,
In hopes of one day profiting the same:
The people’s state of all states is the worst.
--Cinna”
― Cinna, or The Clemency of Augustus
Who see their pow’r will be for such short time,
Seek to abort the fruit of well made plans,
Lest it belong to those who follow them.
As they have little share of public goods,
They try to harvest much for their own selves,
Each man, they know, will gladly pardon them,
In hopes of one day profiting the same:
The people’s state of all states is the worst.
--Cinna”
― Cinna, or The Clemency of Augustus
“Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
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“The greater the effort,
the greater the glory.”
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the greater the glory.”
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