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