Pierre Corneille Quotes - Page 5

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• It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Advice, Choices

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• Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kindness, Thinking, Hands

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• I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

  Pierre Corneille

  Honor, Disgrace

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• Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Death, Destiny, Glory

  "Character: Cornélie". "La Mort de Pompée" by Pierre Corneille , act III, scene iv, 1642.

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• We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

  Pierre Corneille

  Sadness, Perfect, Joy

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• It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

  Pierre Corneille

  Powerful, Crime, Enough

  "Character: Araspe". "Cinna" by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene i, 1641.

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• All great virtues become great men.
  [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Virtue, Great Men

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• Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

  Pierre Corneille

  Fall, Disaster, Alas

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• Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

  Pierre Corneille

  Ambition, Summit

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• Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

  Pierre Corneille

  Rebel, Awareness, Masters

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• Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.

  Pierre Corneille

  Christian, Heaven, Stronger

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• I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power, Wish, Masters

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• Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

  Pierre Corneille

  Gratitude, Generosity, Birth

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• It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.

  Pierre Corneille

  Guilt, Shame

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• It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.

  Pierre Corneille

  Law, Broken, Benefits

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• It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

  Pierre Corneille

  Punishment, Crime, Disgrace

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• I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Love You, Innocence

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• I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

  Pierre Corneille

  Agreement, Doom, Agree

  "Polyeucte". Book by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene II, 1642.

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• Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

  Pierre Corneille

  World, Clemency, Monarchs

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• He who pardons easily invites offense.

  Pierre Corneille

  Pardon, Offense, Invites

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

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• All evils are equal when they are extreme.
  [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Evil, Equal, Extremes

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• After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

  Pierre Corneille

  Pleasure, Ruling, Disdain

  "Cinna ou la Clémence d'Auguste (Cinna or the clemency of Caesar Augustus)". Comedy by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene I), 1641.

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• A good memory is needed once we have lied.
  [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Memories, Lying, Lied

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• A liar is always lavish of oaths.
  [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Liars, Lying, Oath

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• Brave men are brave from the very first.
  [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Bravery, Firsts

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