“To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.”

—  Pierre Corneille , Le Cid

À qui venge son père, il n’est rien d’impossible.
Don Rodrigue, act II, scene ii.
Le Cid (1636)

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À qui venge son père, il n’est rien d’impossible.

Le Cid (1636)

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