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Quotes from Pierre Corneille

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
~ Pierre Corneille
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
~ Pierre Corneille
It is hard to hate what one has loved, And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
~ Pierre Corneille
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
~ Pierre Corneille
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.
~ Pierre Corneille
One is often guilty by being too just.
~ Pierre Corneille
He who pardons easily invites offense.
~ Pierre Corneille
Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
~ Pierre Corneille
Ambition displeases when it has been sated... Having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
~ Pierre Corneille
Such subjects are the very strength of kings, And are thus above the law.
~ Pierre Corneille
And the combat ceased for want of combatants.
~ Pierre Corneille
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
~ Pierre Corneille
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
~ Pierre Corneille
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
~ Pierre Corneille
A service beyond all recompenseWeighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.
~ Pierre Corneille
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
~ Pierre Corneille
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
~ Pierre Corneille
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
~ Pierre Corneille
My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
~ Pierre Corneille
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
~ Pierre Corneille
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
~ Pierre Corneille
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
~ Pierre Corneille
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
~ Pierre Corneille
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
~ Pierre Corneille