Pierre Corneille Quotes - Page 3

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• Obedience is a hard profession.

  Pierre Corneille

  Obedience, Profession, Hard

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• They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

  Pierre Corneille

  Desire, Overcoming

  "Titus and Berenice". Play by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene ii, 1670.

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• We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

  Pierre Corneille

  Learning, Triumph, Conquer

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

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• Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

  Pierre Corneille

  Effects, Severity, Gentleness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Héraclius, I, 1, 1922.

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• Happiness seems made to be shared.

  Pierre Corneille

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "Notes par Rochefoucauld", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 350-52,

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• A good memory is needed after one has lied.

  Pierre Corneille

  Memories, Good Memories, Lied

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• He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases!
  [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage
  Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Insult, Increase, Outrage

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• When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

  Pierre Corneille

  Silence, Miracle, Heaven

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• By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
  [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Misfortunes

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• All great virtues become great men.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Virtue, Great Men

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• To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life And Love, Revenge, Hatred

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• Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kindness, Violence, Vain

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• Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power, Omnipotence

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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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• Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.

  Pierre Corneille

  Gratitude, Grateful, Sadness

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• The man who pardons easily courts injury.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Injury, He Man

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• I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

  Pierre Corneille

  Believe, I Believe, Knows

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• Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

  Pierre Corneille

  Desire, Increase, Fulfillment

  "Polyeucte". Play by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene i, 1642.

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Birthday, Enemy, Despair

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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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• One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

  Pierre Corneille

  Gratitude, Wish, Ingratitude

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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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