“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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