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

Quote by Pierre Corneille

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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Ambition aspires to descend.

Ambition aspires to descend.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like...

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like...

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

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

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

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

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

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

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

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

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

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

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

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

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

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

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no...

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no...