The most famous lines of Corneille's Le Cid
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: Rodrigue, have you a heart? · Go, run, fly, and avenge us. · Pierced to the depths of my heart by a blow as unforeseen as it is mortal…. (Updated Aug 24, 2025.)
'Rodrigue, have you a heart?', 'O rage! O despair!', 'Go, I do not hate you': the lines from Le Cid (1637) that everyone in France knows by heart, checked against the text, with act, scene and speaker.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 13
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Rodrigue, have you a heart?
Act I, scene 5, Don Diègue to his son.
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2
Go, run, fly, and avenge us.
Act I, scene 5, Don Diègue.
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Pierced to the depths of my heart by a blow as unforeseen as it is mortal…
Act I, scene 6, Rodrigue's stanzas.
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However great kings may be, they are what we are: they can make mistakes like other men.
Act I, scene 3, the Count.
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O rage! O despair! O old age, my enemy! Have I lived so long only for this disgrace?
Act I, scene 4, Don Diègue.
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I am young, it is true; but in well-born souls valour does not wait for the number of years.
Act II, scene 2, Rodrigue to the Count.
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To win without danger is to triumph without glory.
Act II, scene 2, the Count.
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I do not accuse you; I weep for my misfortunes.
Act III, scene 4, Chimène to Rodrigue.
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Go, I do not hate you.
Act III, scene 4, Chimène to Rodrigue.
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We set out five hundred; but with swift reinforcements we were three thousand by the time we reached the port.
Act IV, scene 3, Rodrigue's account.
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That dark light that falls from the stars…
Act IV, scene 3, Rodrigue's account.
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And the battle ended for lack of fighters.
Act IV, scene 3, Rodrigue's account.
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Leave it to time, your valour and your king.
Act V, scene 7, the King, the last line of the play.
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