“My reason, it’s true, controls my feelings,
But whatever its authority,
It doesn’t rule them so much as tyrannize them.”

— Pierre Corneille , Polyeucte

Ma raison, il est vrai, dompte mes sentiments,
Mais, quelque autorité que sur eux elle ait prise,
Elle n'y règne pas, elle les tyrannise.
Pauline, act II, scene ii.
Polyeucte (1642)

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Ma raison, il est vrai, dompte mes sentiments, Mais, quelque autorité que sur eux elle ait prise, Elle n'y règne pas, elle les tyrannise.

Polyeucte (1642)

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