“They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.”

— Pierre Corneille, Tite et Bérénice

Qui se vainc une fois peut se vaincre toujours.
Domitien, act II, scene ii.
Tite et Bérénice (Titus and Berenice) (1670)

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