Pierre Corneille Quotes
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Ambition having reached the summit longs to descend.
We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxiet...
Show MoreI can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
