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Pierre Corneille Quotes

Type: Dramatist Quotes Category: French Dramatist Quotes Date of Birth: June 6, 1606 Date of Death: October 1, 1684 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Pierre Corneille Related Authors: Jules Renard Jean Racine Jean Giraudoux Alexandre Dumas Eugene Ionesco Jean Genet Antonin Artaud

A first impulse was never a crime. Pierre Corneille A good memory is needed after one has lied. Pierre Corneille A liar is always lavish of oaths. Pierre Corneille A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. Pierre Corneille A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. Pierre Corneille Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse. Pierre Corneille Ambition aspires to descend. Pierre Corneille An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. Pierre Corneille As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. Pierre Corneille Brave men are brave from the very first. Pierre Corneille Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. Pierre Corneille Danger breeds best on too much confidence. Pierre Corneille Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. Pierre Corneille Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. Pierre Corneille Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven. Pierre Corneille Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods. Pierre Corneille Do your duty, and let the gods do the rest. Pierre Corneille Each instant of life is a step toward death. Pierre Corneille Every man of courage is a man of his word. Pierre Corneille Flee an enemy who knows your weakness. Pierre Corneille Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. Pierre Corneille Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. Pierre Corneille Happiness seems made to be shared. Pierre Corneille He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases. Pierre Corneille He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be. Pierre Corneille He who allows me to rule is in fact my master. Pierre Corneille He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life. Pierre Corneille He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. Pierre Corneille He who fears not death fears not a threat. Pierre Corneille He who forgives readily only invites offense. Pierre Corneille He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. Pierre Corneille He who pardons easily invites offense. Pierre Corneille He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador. Pierre Corneille How delicious is pleasure after torment! Pierre Corneille I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. Pierre Corneille I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. Pierre Corneille I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. Pierre Corneille I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. Pierre Corneille I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived. Pierre Corneille I would not like a king who could obey. Pierre Corneille In recounting our woes, we often soothe them. Pierre Corneille In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate. Pierre Corneille It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. Pierre Corneille It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. Pierre Corneille It matters more how one gives than what one gives. Pierre Corneille It takes good memory to keep up a lie. Pierre Corneille Just vengeance does not call for punishment. Pierre Corneille Love is a tyrant sparing none. Pierre Corneille Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. Pierre Corneille My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. Pierre Corneille My sweetest hope is to lose hope. Pierre Corneille Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! Pierre Corneille Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! Pierre Corneille One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. Pierre Corneille One is often guilty by being too just. Pierre Corneille One often calms one's grief by recounting it. Pierre Corneille One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie. Pierre Corneille Peace is produced by war. Pierre Corneille Reason and love are sworn enemies. Pierre Corneille Self-love is the source of all our other loves. Pierre Corneille Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. Pierre Corneille The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. Pierre Corneille The greater the effort, the greater the glory. Pierre Corneille The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Pierre Corneille The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic. Pierre Corneille They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always. Pierre Corneille This dark brightness that falls from the stars. Pierre Corneille Those who easily forgive invite offenses. Pierre Corneille To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory. Pierre Corneille To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. Pierre Corneille To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible. Pierre Corneille To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. Pierre Corneille To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. Pierre Corneille True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. Pierre Corneille We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. Pierre Corneille We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. Pierre Corneille We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Pierre Corneille When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. Pierre Corneille When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. Pierre Corneille When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory. Pierre Corneille

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