Famous Quotes / Pierre Corneille
28 Quotations by Pierre Corneille
- 1. A liar is full of oaths.
- 2. A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
- 3. All evils are equal when they are extreme.
- 4. Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
- 5. Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
- 6. Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
- 7. Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
- 8. Every man of courage is a man of his word.
- 9. Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
- 10. Happiness seems made to be shared.
- 11. He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
- 12. I have deserved neither so much honor nor so much disgrace.
- 13. It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
- 14. It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
- 15. Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
- 16. Love is a tyrant sparing none.
- 17. One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
- 18. Peace is produced by war.
- 19. The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
- 20. The manner of giving
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