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Pierre Corneille
France
6 Jun 1606 // 1 Oct 1684
Dramatist
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On Hate:
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit
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On Obedience:
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity
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On Feeling:
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings
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On Sickness:
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied
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On Joy:
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness
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On Desire:
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always
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On Self-love:
Self-love is the source of all our other loves
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On Love:
Reason and love are sworn enemies
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On Peace:
Peace is produced by war
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On Grief:
One often calms one's grief by recounting it
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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