Quotes By Pierre Corneille
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Pierre Corneille
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Pierre Corneille
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
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