“It is an imprudence common to kings
To listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.”

— Pierre Corneille , The Death of Pompey

C'est une imprudence assez commune aux rois
D'écouter trop d'avis et se tromper au choix.
Ptolomée, act IV, scene i.
La Mort de Pompée (The Death of Pompey) (1642)

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C'est une imprudence assez commune aux rois D'écouter trop d'avis et se tromper au choix.

La Mort de Pompée (The Death of Pompey) (1642)

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French tragedian 1606–1684

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