Pierre Corneille Quotes

» To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

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

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

» A good memory is needed after one has lied.

» We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

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

» To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

» Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

» I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

» Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

» Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

» Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

» The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

» Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

» Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

» He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

» He who forgives readily only invites offense.

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

» He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

» Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.

» A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

» Peace is produced by war.

» Love is a tyrant sparing none.

» Happiness seems made to be shared.

» Brave men are brave from the very first.

» Ambition aspires to descend.

» A liar is always lavish of oaths.

» A first impulse was never a crime.

» This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

» Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

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

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

» He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.

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

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

» How delicious is pleasure after torment!

» I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

» A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

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

» Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

» Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

» My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

» I would not like a king who could obey.

» I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

» I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

» It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

» Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

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

» Do your duty, and let the gods do the rest.

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

» Reason and love are sworn enemies.

» After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

» I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

» He who fears not death fears not a threat.

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

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

» Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

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

» One is often guilty by being too just.

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

» 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.

» He who pardons easily invites offense.

» Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

» Each instant of life is a step toward death.

» It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

» As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

» Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

» We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

» In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

» In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

» To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

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

» He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

» The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

» He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

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

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

» He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

» To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

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