Pierre Corneille

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.