“To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate
That all compete for so beautiful a death.”

— Pierre Corneille

Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort,
Qu’on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.
Horace, act II, scene iii.
Horace (1639)

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French tragedian 1606–1684

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