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Pierre Corneille [1606-1684] French

Rank: 101
Dramatist, Tragedian

Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine.

Great, Happiness, Sad, Age, Courage, Love, Men, Power, Sympathy, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.	Sad	101
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.		102
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.	Wisdom	103
Happiness seems made to be shared.	Happiness	104
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.		105
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.	Great, Men	106
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.	Love	107
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.		108
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.	Happiness, Sad	109
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.	Power	110
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.		111
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.		112
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.		113
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.		114
How delicious is pleasure after torment!		115
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.		116
Every man of courage is a man of his word.	Courage	117
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.		118
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.		119
It takes good memory to keep up a lie.		120
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.		121
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.		122
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.		123
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.		124
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.	Great	125
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.		126
A liar is always lavish of oaths.		201
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.		202
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.		203
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.		204
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.		205
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!	Age	206
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.		207
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.		208
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.		209
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.		210
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.		211
Ambition aspires to descend.		212
A first impulse was never a crime.		213
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.		214
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.		215
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.	Sympathy	216
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.		217
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.		218
Love is a tyrant sparing none.		219
Brave men are brave from the very first.		220
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.		221
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.		222
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.		223
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!		224
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.		225
One is often guilty by being too just.		226
Each instant of life is a step toward death.		301
It matters more how one gives than what one gives.		302
A good memory is needed after one has lied.		303
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.		304
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.		305
Those who easily forgive invite offenses.		306
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.		307
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.		308
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.		309
Peace is produced by war.		310
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.		311
My sweetest hope is to lose hope.		312
I would not like a king who could obey.		313
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.		314
Reason and love are sworn enemies.		315
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.		316
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.		317
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.		318
He who forgives readily only invites offense.		319
I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.		320
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.		321
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.		322
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.		323
He who pardons easily invites offense.		324
In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.		325

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