Pierre Corneille Quotes

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• Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love Is, Self, Romance

  "Titus and Berenice". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1670.

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• The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

  Pierre Corneille

  Fire, Ashes, Slumber

  "Rodogune". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1644.

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• When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

  Pierre Corneille

  Motivational, Success, Fighting

  'Le Cid' (1637) act 2, sc. 2

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• I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

  Pierre Corneille

  Honor, Consent, I Can

  "Le Cid". Tragicomedy by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene I), December 1636.

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• The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Perseverance, Work, Effort

  "Character: Pauline". "Polyeucte" by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene v, 1642.

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• The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

  Pierre Corneille

  Birthday, Christmas, Giving

  "The Liar". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1643.

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• Patience and time conquer all things.

  Pierre Corneille

  Endurance, Conquer, All Things

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• Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

  Pierre Corneille

  Forgiving, Offense, Invites

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• When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

  Pierre Corneille

  Disease, Patient, Remedy

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• A liar is always lavish of oaths.

  Pierre Corneille

  Liars, Lying, Deceit

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Menteur, III. 5, p. 485-87, 1922.

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• It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Hate, Fire

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• As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.

  Pierre Corneille

  Self, Feelings, Cynicism

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

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• Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.

  Pierre Corneille

  Know How, Occasions, Knows

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• In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

  Pierre Corneille

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• Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

  Pierre Corneille

  Enemy, Weakness, Knows

  "Character: Néarque". "Polyeucte" by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene i, 1642.

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• Love is a tyrant sparing none.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Love Is, Tyrants

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene ii, 1636.

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• As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

  Pierre Corneille

  God, Religion, Polytheism

  "Polyeucte martyr". Play by Pierre Corneille (Act IV, Scene VI), 1642.

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

  Pierre Corneille

  Virtue, Glory, Crime

  "Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, act V, scene iii, 1639.

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• If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Revenge, Hate

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• He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

  Pierre Corneille

  Infamy, Unworthy

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene V, 1636.

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• Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Hope, Flames

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• To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible

  Pierre Corneille

  Father, Impossible, Nothing Is Impossible

  "Le Cid". Play by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene ii, 1636.

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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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• One is often guilty by being too just.

  Pierre Corneille

  Guilty

  "La Mort de Pompée". Book by Pierre Corneille, Photin, act I, scene I, 1642.

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