The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron
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[Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande... PIERRE CORNEILLE Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
[Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfai... PIERRE CORNEILLE All great virtues become great men.
[Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] PIERRE CORNEILLE The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud... PIERRE CORNEILLE All evils are equal when they are extreme.
[Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extre... PIERRE CORNEILLE To myself alone do I owe my fame.
[Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.] PIERRE CORNEILLE Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so.
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[Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.] PIERRE CORNEILLE Brave men are brave from the very first.
[Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.] PIERRE CORNEILLE A liar is always lavish of oaths.
[Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.] PIERRE CORNEILLE A good memory is needed once we have lied.
[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.] PIERRE CORNEILLE We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read
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[Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.] PIERRE CORNEILLE Just vengeance does not call for punishment. PIERRE CORNEILLE The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b... PIERRE CARDIN Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
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[Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait longtemps... PIERRE CORNEILLE Happiness seems made to be shared.
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[Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque
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insolence, if unpunished, increases!
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