Pierre Corneille Quotes - Page 2

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.

  Pierre Corneille

  Gratitude, Grateful, Sadness

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• As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

  Pierre Corneille

  God, Religion, Polytheism

  "Polyeucte martyr". Play by Pierre Corneille (Act IV, Scene VI), 1642.

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• Obedience is a hard profession.

  Pierre Corneille

  Obedience, Profession, Hard

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• Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Hope, Flames

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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!

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Gay, Mirrors

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• Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

  Pierre Corneille

  Great Men, Wells, Great Managers

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• To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible

  Pierre Corneille

  Father, Impossible, Nothing Is Impossible

  "Le Cid". Play by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene ii, 1636.

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• Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

  Pierre Corneille

  Enemy, Weakness, Knows

  "Character: Néarque". "Polyeucte" by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene i, 1642.

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• 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

  Insult, Increase, Outrage

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• Each instant of life is a step toward death.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life, Inspire, Steps

  "Tite et Bérénice". Book by Pierre Corneille, act V, scene I, 1670.

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• He who fears not death fears not a threat.

  Pierre Corneille

  Threat, Fear Not

  Pierre Corneille (2009). “Le Cid”, p.28, The Floating Press

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• The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.

  Pierre Corneille

  Risk, Fruit, Greater

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• All evils are equal when they are extreme.

  Pierre Corneille

  Evil, Equal, Good Evil

  "Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, III. 4, 1639.

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• Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

  Pierre Corneille

  Dare, Ifs

  "Character: Léontine". "Héraclius" by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene IV, 1647.

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• He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

  Pierre Corneille

  Despair, Noble, Conquer

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• One is often guilty by being too just.

  Pierre Corneille

  Guilty

  "La Mort de Pompée". Book by Pierre Corneille, Photin, act I, scene I, 1642.

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• Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power, Omnipotence

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• To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life And Love, Revenge, Hatred

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• Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

  Pierre Corneille

  Virtue, Glory, Crime

  "Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, act V, scene iii, 1639.

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• In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

  Pierre Corneille

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• Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power, Command, Please

  "Sertorius". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1662.

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• One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

  Pierre Corneille

  Gratitude, Wish, Ingratitude

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• If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Revenge, Hate

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• Happiness seems made to be shared.

  Pierre Corneille

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "Notes par Rochefoucauld", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 350-52,

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