Pierre Corneille Quotes - Page 4

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• My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

  Pierre Corneille

  Feelings, Reason, Authority

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• Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.

  Pierre Corneille

  Fall, Ambition, Lasts

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• What destroys one man preserves another.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Preserves, One Man

  Pierre Corneille (2015). “Chief Plays of Corneille”, p.176, Princeton University Press

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• He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

  Pierre Corneille

  Doe, Care, Fear Of Death

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le CId, II. 1, 1922.

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• I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

  Pierre Corneille

  Years, Waiting, Soul

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• Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

  Pierre Corneille

  Birthday, Enemy, Despair

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• Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, War, Flames

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• Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

  Pierre Corneille

  Ambition, Sated, Aspire

  "Cinna". Book by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene i, 1641.

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• The worst of all States is the democratic State.

  Pierre Corneille

  Democracy, Despotism, States

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• And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

  Pierre Corneille

  Want, Combat, Contention

  Pierre Corneille (2009). “Le Cid”, p.79, The Floating Press

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• I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

  Pierre Corneille

  Innocence, Imagine, Suspicion

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• In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

  Pierre Corneille

  Feels, Misfortunes

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• How delicious is pleasure after torment!

  Pierre Corneille

  Pleasure, Torment, Delicious

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• Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

  Pierre Corneille

  Rome, Exile

  "Sertorius". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene I, 1662.

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• He who despises life is his life's master.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life Is, Stoicism, Masters

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• As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Men, May

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

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• Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

  Pierre Corneille

  Heaven, Wicked, Pay

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• Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

  Pierre Corneille

  Sweet, Fate, Enemy

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• A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Husband, Father

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• If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

  Pierre Corneille

  Animal, Elephants, People

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• One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Grief, Grieving, Bereavement

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• Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

  Pierre Corneille

  Glory, Renounce, Fortune

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• Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

  Pierre Corneille

  Fear, Power, No Fear

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

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• The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Rome, Democracy

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• For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years

  Pierre Corneille

  Years, Soul, Born

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