Pierre Corneille Quotes - Page 3

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• Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

  Pierre Corneille

  Heaven, Duty And Honor, Duty

  "Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene viii, 1639.

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• We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

  Pierre Corneille

  Learning, Triumph, Conquer

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1636.

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• Brave men are brave from the very first.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Bravery, Firsts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Cid, II. 3, 1922.

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• There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained

  Pierre Corneille

  Sympathy, Sweet, Ties

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• He who allows me to rule is in fact my master

  Pierre Corneille

  Facts, Masters

  "Nicomède". Play by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene i, 1651.

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• 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

  Past, Destiny, Mirrors

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• Peace is produced by war.

  Pierre Corneille

  Peace, War

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• A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power, Risk, Littles

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• He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

  Pierre Corneille

  Play, Ambassadors, Advisors

  "Nicomède". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene iii, 1651.

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• My sweetest hope is to lose hope

  Pierre Corneille

  Sweetest, Loses

  Pierre Corneille (2009). “Le Cid”, p.13, The Floating Press

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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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• Obedience is a hard profession.

  Pierre Corneille

  Obedience, Profession, Hard

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• A liar is full of oaths.

  Pierre Corneille

  Liars, Lying, Oath

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• When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

  Pierre Corneille

  Silence, Miracle, Heaven

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• They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

  Pierre Corneille

  Desire, Overcoming

  "Titus and Berenice". Play by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene ii, 1670.

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• Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

  Pierre Corneille

  Powerful, Fear, Should

  "Cinna". Book by Pierre Corneille, Act IV, scene ii, 1641.

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• Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

  Pierre Corneille

  Force, Gentleness

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• By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
  [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Misfortunes

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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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• All great virtues become great men.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Virtue, Great Men

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• Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kindness, Violence, Vain

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• The man who pardons easily courts injury.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Injury, He Man

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• Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

  Pierre Corneille

  Effects, Severity, Gentleness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Héraclius, I, 1, 1922.

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Believe, I Believe, Knows

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• He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

  Pierre Corneille

  Long, Hated, Can Not

  "Cinna". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1641.

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