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