Occupation: Dramatist Birth: June 6, 1606 Death: October 1, 1684
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel..
Danger breeds best on too much confidence..
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion..
It matters more how one gives than what one gives.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory..
Guess if you can, choose if you dare..
One is often guilty by being too just..
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some objec….
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime..
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life..
Love is a tyrant sparing none..
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty..
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrag….
He who fears not death fears not a threat..
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants..
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness..