Quotes from authors born in 1606
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
Pierre Corneille
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Pierre Corneille
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
Pierre Corneille
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Pierre Corneille
Benoit Mandelbrot 
Gifford Pinchot 
Lew Wallace 
Susannah McCorkle 
Patrick Dempsey 
Jacqueline du Pre 
Clayton Moore 
Otto Hermann Kahn