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Quotes from Pierre Corneille

We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
~ Pierre Corneille
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
~ Pierre Corneille
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
~ Pierre Corneille
The man who pardons easily courts injury.
~ Pierre Corneille
Brave men are brave from the very first.
~ Pierre Corneille
What destroys one man preserves another.
~ Pierre Corneille
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
~ Pierre Corneille
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
~ Pierre Corneille
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
~ Pierre Corneille
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
~ Pierre Corneille
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
~ Pierre Corneille
I would not like a king who could obey.
~ Pierre Corneille
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
~ Pierre Corneille
Rome alone can resist Rome.
~ Pierre Corneille
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
~ Pierre Corneille
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
~ Pierre Corneille
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]
~ Pierre Corneille
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
~ Pierre Corneille
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
~ Pierre Corneille
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
~ Pierre Corneille
Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.
~ Pierre Corneille
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
~ Pierre Corneille
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
~ Pierre Corneille
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
~ Pierre Corneille