Cinna QUOTES

1 " Ces petits souverains qu'il fait pour une année,
Voyant d'un temps si court leur puissance bornée,
Des plus heureux desseins font avorter le fruit,
De peur de le laisser à celui qui les suit;
Comme ils ont peu de part au bien dont ils ordonnent,
Dans le champ du public largement ils moissonnent,
Assurés que chacun leur pardonne aisément,
Espérant à son tour un pareil traitement :
Le pire des États, c'est l'État populaire. "

― Pierre Corneille , Cinna

3 " These little rulers who may rule a year,
Who see their pow’r will be for such short time,
Seek to abort the fruit of well made plans,
Lest it belong to those who follow them.
As they have little share of public goods,
They try to harvest much for their own selves,
Each man, they know, will gladly pardon them,
In hopes of one day profiting the same:
The people’s state of all states is the worst.
--Cinna "

― Pierre Corneille , Cinna

5 " These little rulers who may rule a year,
Who see their pow’r will be for such short time,
Seek to abort the fruit of well made plans,
Lest it belong to those who follow them.
As they have little share of public goods,
They try to harvest much for their own selves,
Each man, they know, will gladly pardon them,
In hopes of one day profiting the same:
The people’s state of all states is the worst. "

― Pierre Corneille , Cinna

7 " آه! كُفَّ يا حبيبي عن هذه المغامرة المهلكة. فما انتقامي بانتقام إذا جرَّ إلى الإيذاء بك. إنّ أقسى القلوب لهو الذي يرى السرور في أمانيَّ تفسدها مرارة الدموع. وإن أوجع الأرزاء لهو أن نشتري موت عدوٍّ باستنزاف ما في عيوننا من العبرات. "

― Pierre Corneille , Cinna