Pierre Corneille Quotes

Self-love is the source of all our other loves... view

By: Pierre Corneille

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect... view

By: Pierre Corneille

One often calms one's grief by recounting it... view

By: Pierre Corneille

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Reason and love are sworn enemies... view

By: Pierre Corneille

One is often guilty by being too just... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Just vengeance does not call for punishment... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Peace is produced by war... view

By: Pierre Corneille

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!.. view

By: Pierre Corneille

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!.. view

By: Pierre Corneille

My sweetest hope is to lose hope... view

By: Pierre Corneille

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them... view

By: Pierre Corneille

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Love is a tyrant sparing none... view

By: Pierre Corneille

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible... view

By: Pierre Corneille

It takes good memory to keep up a lie... view

By: Pierre Corneille

It matters more how one gives than what one gives... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power... view

By: Pierre Corneille

To win without risk is to triumph without glory... view

By: Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace... view

By: Pierre Corneille

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory... view

By: Pierre Corneille

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph... view

By: Pierre Corneille

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied... view

By: Pierre Corneille

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger... view

By: Pierre Corneille

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness... view

By: Pierre Corneille

We never taste a perfect joy.. view

By: Pierre Corneille

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny... view

By: Pierre Corneille

The greater the effort, the greater the glory... view

By: Pierre Corneille

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory... view

By: Pierre Corneille

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster.. view

By: Pierre Corneille

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Those who easily forgive invite offenses... view

By: Pierre Corneille

This dark brightness that falls from the stars... view

By: Pierre Corneille

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always... view

By: Pierre Corneille

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic... view

By: Pierre Corneille

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift... view

By: Pierre Corneille

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse... view

By: Pierre Corneille

Every man of courage is a man of his word... view

By: Pierre Corneille