“I can be forced to live without happiness,
But I will never consent to live without honor.”

— Pierre Corneille , Le Cid

L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,
Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.
Don Gomès, act II, scene i.
Le Cid (1636)

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L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur, Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.

Le Cid (1636)

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