“Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.”
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
“Love is a tyrant, sparing none.”
— Pierre Corneille, book Le Cid
L'amour est un tyran qui n'épargne personne.
Doña Urraque, act I, scene ii.
Le Cid (1636)
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Context: p>I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
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If ever any beauty I did see,
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Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
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And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
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Without sharp north, without declining west?
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