Top 77 Pierre Corneille Quotes November 25, 2020 by Krista Aniston Leave a Comment “We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.”― Pierre Corneille“Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.”― Pierre Corneille“After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.”― Pierre Corneille“It takes good memory to keep up a lie.”― Pierre Corneille“A good memory is needed after one has lied.”― Pierre Corneille“Happiness seems made to be shared.”― Pierre Corneille“Brave men are brave from the very first.”― Pierre Corneille“I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.”― Pierre Corneille“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”― Pierre Corneille“This dark brightness that falls from the stars.”― Pierre Corneille“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”― Pierre Corneille“We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.”― Pierre Corneille“Love is a tyrant sparing none.”― Pierre Corneille“Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality.”― Pierre Corneille“Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.”― Pierre Corneille“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.”― Pierre Corneille“One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.”― Pierre Corneille“Every man of courage is a man of his word.”― Pierre Corneille“When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.”― Pierre Corneille“To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.”― Pierre Corneille“A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.”― Pierre Corneille“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”― Pierre Corneille“He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.”― Pierre Corneille“True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn’t await the passing of years.”― Pierre Corneille“To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.”― Pierre Corneille“The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.”― Pierre Corneille“Danger breeds best on too much confidence.”― Pierre Corneille“Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.”― Pierre Corneille“Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.”― Pierre Corneille“Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.”― Pierre Corneille“He who forgives readily only invites offense.”― Pierre Corneille“Peace is produced by war.”― Pierre Corneille“Ambition aspires to descend.”― Pierre Corneille“How delicious is pleasure after torment!”― Pierre Corneille“Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.”― Pierre Corneille“Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.”― Pierre Corneille“I don’t know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.”― Pierre Corneille“It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.”― Pierre Corneille“He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.”― Pierre Corneille“The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.”― Pierre Corneille“A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.”― Pierre Corneille“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”― Pierre Corneille“Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.”― Pierre Corneille“One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.”― Pierre Corneille“We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.”― Pierre Corneille“Those who easily forgive invite offenses.”― Pierre Corneille“The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.”― Pierre Corneille“Just vengeance does not call for punishment.”― Pierre Corneille“He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.”― Pierre Corneille“He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.”― Pierre Corneille“A first impulse was never a crime.”― Pierre Corneille“One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.”― Pierre Corneille“It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.”― Pierre Corneille“When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.”― Pierre Corneille“Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.”― Pierre Corneille“To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.”― Pierre Corneille“I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.”― Pierre Corneille“My sweetest hope is to lose hope.”― Pierre Corneille“I would not like a king who could obey.”― Pierre Corneille“I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.”― Pierre Corneille“Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!”― Pierre Corneille“Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!”― Pierre Corneille“Reason and love are sworn enemies.”― Pierre Corneille“My reason, it’s true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn’t rule them so much as tyrannize them.”― Pierre Corneille“One is often guilty by being too just.”― Pierre Corneille“They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.”― 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“He who pardons easily invites offense.”― Pierre Corneille“Each instant of life is a step toward death.”― Pierre Corneille“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”― Pierre Corneille“Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.”― Pierre Corneille“In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.”― Pierre Corneille“In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.”― Pierre Corneille“To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.”― Pierre Corneille“The greater the effort, the greater the glory.”― Pierre Corneille“It matters more how one gives than what one gives.”― Pierre Corneille“He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.”― Pierre Corneille
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