“I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.”

—  Pierre Corneille , Polyeucte

Je vous aime,
Beaucoup moins que mon Dieu, mais bien plus que moi-même.
Polyeucte, act IV, scene iii.
Polyeucte (1642)

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Je vous aime, Beaucoup moins que mon Dieu, mais bien plus que moi-même.

Polyeucte (1642)

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