Famous Pierre Corneille Quotations

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"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
by Pierre Corneille
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."
by Pierre Corneille
"He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be."
by Pierre Corneille
"Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead"
by Pierre Corneille
"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
by Pierre Corneille
"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."
by Pierre Corneille
"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."
by Pierre Corneille
"Danger breeds best on too much confidence."
by Pierre Corneille
"Peace is produced by war."
by Pierre Corneille
"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
by Pierre Corneille
"A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little."
by Pierre Corneille
"After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling."
by Pierre Corneille
"Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend."
by Pierre Corneille
"As master of the universe, need he fear a master?"
by Pierre Corneille
"Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day."
by Pierre Corneille
"Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it."
by Pierre Corneille
"Each instant of life is a step toward death."
by Pierre Corneille
"He has served me too well; by increasing my power he has stolen it away: he is now my subject only so long as he pleases."
by Pierre Corneille
"Have others fear you, and I will have no fear."
by Pierre Corneille
"How delicious is pleasure after torment!"
by Pierre Corneille
"He who punishes the vanquished fears not the victor."
by Pierre Corneille
"He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador."
by Pierre Corneille
"He who fears not death fears not a threat."
by Pierre Corneille
"He who allows me to rule is in fact my master."
by Pierre Corneille
"I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman."
by Pierre Corneille
"How sweet to die after one's enemies."
by Pierre Corneille
"I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be."
by Pierre Corneille
"I would not like a king who could obey."
by Pierre Corneille
"In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate."
by Pierre Corneille
"It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice."
by Pierre Corneille
"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
by Pierre Corneille
"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power."
by Pierre Corneille
"One is often guilty by being too just."
by Pierre Corneille
"Such is the caprice of Romans ... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings."
by Pierre Corneille
"The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get."
by Pierre Corneille
"The fate of the State decides theirs: clauses of treaties determine their affections."
by Pierre Corneille
"The people you killed seem to be in excellent health."
by Pierre Corneille
"To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death."
by Pierre Corneille
"What? Rome dares not desire what you desire? How do you use your absolute power?"
by Pierre Corneille


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