Pierre Corneille quotes Born: 06/06/1606 Died: 10/01/1684 Country: france

• I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. (Pierre Corneille)
• Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven. (Pierre Corneille) [rest]
• Danger breeds best on too much confidence. (Pierre Corneille) [danger/confidence]
• Happiness seems made to be shared. (Pierre Corneille) [happiness]
• The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. (Pierre Corneille) [more]
• Those who easily forgive invite offenses. (Pierre Corneille)
• Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. (Pierre Corneille)
• Love is a tyrant sparing none. (Pierre Corneille) [love]
• A liar is full of oaths. (Pierre Corneille)
• Peace is produced by war. (Pierre Corneille) [/war]
• We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. (Pierre Corneille) [taste/happiness/perfection/sadness]
• It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. (Pierre Corneille) [crime]
• To win without risk is to triumph without glory. (Pierre Corneille)
• Just vengeance does not call for punishment. (Pierre Corneille) [punishment]
• All evils are equal when they are extreme. (Pierre Corneille)
• We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. (Pierre Corneille) [danger]
• To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory. (Pierre Corneille) [danger]
• A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory. (Pierre Corneille) [danger]
• A first impulse was never a crime. (Pierre Corneille)
• A good memory is needed after one has lied. (Pierre Corneille)
• A liar is always lavish of oaths. (Pierre Corneille)
• A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. (Pierre Corneille)
• After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. (Pierre Corneille)
• Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse. (Pierre Corneille)
• Ambition aspires to descend. (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)
• As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. (Pierre Corneille)
• Brave men are brave from the very first. (Pierre Corneille)
• Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. (Pierre Corneille)
• Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. (Pierre Corneille)
• Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. (Pierre Corneille)

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