Quotes from Pierre Corneille

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

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

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

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

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

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

One is often guilty by being too just.

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

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

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

Patience and time conquer all things.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

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

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

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

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