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

— Pierre Corneille , Nicomède

Le Roi, juste et prudent, ne veut que ce qu'il peut.
Laodice, act I, scene ii.
Nicomède (1651)

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Nicomède (1651)

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French tragedian 1606–1684

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