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What? Rome dares not desire what you desire? How do you use your absolute power?

By Pierre Corneille

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

By Pierre Corneille

The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.

By Pierre Corneille

The fate of the State decides theirs: clauses of treaties determine their affections.

By Pierre Corneille

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

By Pierre Corneille

Such is the caprice of Romans ... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings.

By Pierre Corneille

One is often guilty by being too just.

By Pierre Corneille

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

By Pierre Corneille

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

By Pierre Corneille

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

By Pierre Corneille

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

By Pierre Corneille

I would not like a king who could obey.

By Pierre Corneille

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

By Pierre Corneille

How sweet to die after one's enemies.

By Pierre Corneille

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

By Pierre Corneille

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

By Pierre Corneille

He who fears not death fears not a threat.

By Pierre Corneille

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

By Pierre Corneille

He who punishes the vanquished fears not the victor.

By Pierre Corneille

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

By Pierre Corneille

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

By Pierre Corneille

He has served me too well; by increasing my power he has stolen it away: he is now my subject only so long as he pleases.

By Pierre Corneille

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

By Pierre Corneille

Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

By Pierre Corneille

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

By Pierre Corneille

As master of the universe, need he fear a master?

By Pierre Corneille

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

By Pierre Corneille

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

By Pierre Corneille

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

By Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

By Pierre Corneille