“You haven’t wasted all your time in Rome,
Since you know how to defend yourself so gallantly:
You have wit, even if you haven’t courage.”

— Pierre Corneille, Nicomède

C'est n'avoir pas perdu tout votre temps à Rome,
Que vous savoir ainsi défendre en galant homme:
Vous avez de l'esprit, si vous n'avez du cœur.
Nicomède, act III, scene vi.
Nicomède (1651)

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