Pierre Corneille Quotes

"He who does not fear death cares naught for threats."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Death, Fear)

"Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Effect)

"One often calms one's grief by recounting it."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Grief)

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Lie, Memory)

"Reason and love are sworn enemies."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Love, Enemies, Reason)

"One is often guilty by being too just."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Being)

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Punishment, Vengeance)

"Peace is produced by war."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Peace, War)

"One half of my life has put the other half in the grave."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Life, Grave)

"Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!"
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Enemy, Fate, Pity)

"Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!"
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Age)

"My sweetest hope is to lose hope."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Hope)

"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Feelings, Authority, Reason)

"The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Crime, Shame)

"Love is a tyrant sparing none."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Love)

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Father, Nothing)

"It takes good memory to keep up a lie."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Lie, Memory)

"It matters more how one gives than what one gives."
- Pierre Corneille

"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Power, Universe)

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Glory, Risk)

"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Crime, Disgrace)

"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Danger, Glory)

"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Fight, Glory)

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Disease)

"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Danger, Glory)

"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Happiness, Perfection, Sadness, Taste)

"We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Joy, Sadness, Taste)

"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Danger, Glory)

"Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Treachery, Tyranny)

"The greater the effort, the greater the glory."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Effort, Glory)

"To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Glory)

"To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Court, Disaster, Hatred, Revenge)

"To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Death, Country, Fate)

"Those who easily forgive invite offenses."
- Pierre Corneille

"This dark brightness that falls from the stars."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Stars)

"They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always."
- Pierre Corneille

"The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Tragedy)

"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Giving, Worth)

"True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Valor, Years)

"Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Disaster)

"Every man of courage is a man of his word."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Courage, Man, Word)

"Each instant of life is a step toward death."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Death, Life)

"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Duty, Heaven, Rest)

"Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Nature, Quality, Deceit, Spirits, Woman)

"Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: World)

"Brave men are brave from the very first."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Men, First)

"As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Men, Kings, May)

"Flee an enemy who knows your weakness."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Enemy, Weakness)

"Ambition aspires to descend."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Ambition)

"Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Desire, Fulfillment)

"After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling."
- Pierre Corneille

"A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Victory, Danger, Glory)

"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Father, Husband, Nothing)

"A liar is always lavish of oaths."
- Pierre Corneille

"A good memory is needed after one has lied."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Memory)

"A first impulse was never a crime."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Crime, First)

"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Crime, State)

"He who forgives readily only invites offense."
- 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
(Related: Thoughts, Destiny, Example, Order, Past)

"I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Happiness, Honor, Will)

"In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Service)

"In recounting our woes, we often soothe them."
- Pierre Corneille

"I would not like a king who could obey."
- Pierre Corneille

"I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived."
- Pierre Corneille

"Danger breeds best on too much confidence."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Confidence, Danger)

"I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Being, Innocence, Suspicion)

"Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Force)

"I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom."
- Pierre Corneille

"How delicious is pleasure after torment!"
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Pleasure)

"He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador."
- Pierre Corneille

"Happiness seems made to be shared."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Happiness)

"He who is hated by all can not expect to live long."
- Pierre Corneille

"He who fears not death fears not a threat."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Death)

"Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare."
- Pierre Corneille

"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Disgrace, Honor)

"He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Life, Unworthy)

"He who allows me to rule is in fact my master."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Fact)

"He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be."
- Pierre Corneille

"He who pardons easily invites offense."
- Pierre Corneille