Quotes By Pierre Corneille

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

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

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

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

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

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

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

Ambition aspires to descend.

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

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

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.