Pierre Corneille Quotes
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One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
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Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
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Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
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Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
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A good memory is needed after one has lied.
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He who pardons easily invites offense.
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He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
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Brave men are brave from the very first.
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Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
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To myself alone do I owe my fame.
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Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
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As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
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When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
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It takes good memory to keep up a lie
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And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
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To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
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I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
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Happiness seems made to be shared.
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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
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Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
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These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!
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If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?
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All evils are equal when they are extreme.
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When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
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Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
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