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Authors
Pierre Corneille
French
Dramatist
About the author
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Vengeance
#Punishment
Peace is produced by war.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#War
#Peace
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Self
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Death
#Fear
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Effect
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Grief
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Memory
#Lie
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Love
#Reason
#Enemies
One is often guilty by being too just.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Being
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Life
#Grave
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Enemy
#Pity
#Fate
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Age
My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#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,
French
Dramatist
#Reason
#Authority
#Feelings
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Crime
#Shame
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Love
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Father
It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Memory
#Lie
It matters more how one gives than what one gives.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Power
#Universe
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Risk
#Glory
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Crime
#Disgrace
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Danger
#Glory
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Fight
#Glory
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Disease
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Danger
#Glory
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Perfection
#Happiness
#Taste
#Sadness
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Taste
#Joy
#Sadness
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Danger
#Glory
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Tyranny
#Treachery
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Effort
#Glory
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Glory
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Court
#Revenge
#Hatred
#Disaster
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Death
#Country
#Fate
Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Stars
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Tragedy
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Worth
#Giving
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Years
#Valor
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Disaster
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Man
#Word
#Courage
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Life
#Death
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Rest
#Duty
#Heaven
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Woman
#Nature
#Quality
#Spirits
#Deceit
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#World
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#First
#Men
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#May
#Men
#Kings
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Enemy
#Weakness
Ambition aspires to descend.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Ambition
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Desire
#Fulfillment
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Danger
#Glory
#Victory
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Father
#Husband
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Memory
A first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Crime
#First
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Crime
#State
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
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,
French
Dramatist
#Past
#Destiny
#Order
#Example
#Thoughts
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Will
#Honor
#Happiness
In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Service
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
I would not like a king who could obey.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Danger
#Confidence
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Being
#Innocence
#Suspicion
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Force
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Pleasure
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Happiness
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Death
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Honor
#Disgrace
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Life
#Unworthy
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
#Fact
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist
He who pardons easily invites offense.
Pierre Corneille,
French
Dramatist