When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

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• Pierre Corneille:

  We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

• Pierre Corneille:

  Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

• Pierre Corneille:

  To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

• Pierre Corneille:

  I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

• Pierre Corneille:

  A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

• Pierre Corneille:

  Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

• Pierre Corneille:

  Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

• Pierre Corneille:

  Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

• Pierre Corneille:

  My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

• Pierre Corneille:

  I would not like a king who could obey.