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French dramatist
wrote plays "Medea" 1635 (also "Medee"), "Le Cid" 1636, "Horace" 1639, "Cinna" 1639, "Polyeucte" 1640, "Le Menteur" 1642, "The Death of Pompey" 1643, "Oedipus" 1659 (also "Oedipe")
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- "To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
- "Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;"
- "Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."
