Pierre Corneille

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

— Pierre Corneille

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

— Pierre Corneille

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

— Pierre Corneille

Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

— Pierre Corneille

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

— Pierre Corneille

I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

— Pierre Corneille

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

— Pierre Corneille

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble…

— Pierre Corneille

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

— Pierre Corneille

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

— Pierre Corneille

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

— Pierre Corneille

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

— Pierre Corneille

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written…

— Pierre Corneille

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

— Pierre Corneille

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

— Pierre Corneille

It matters more how one gives than what one gives

— Pierre Corneille

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.

— Pierre Corneille

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

— Pierre Corneille

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

— Pierre Corneille

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master

— Pierre Corneille

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible

— Pierre Corneille

Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

— Pierre Corneille

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

— Pierre Corneille

The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.

— Pierre Corneille

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

— Pierre Corneille

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

— Pierre Corneille

Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.

— Pierre Corneille

He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.

— Pierre Corneille

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

— Pierre Corneille

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

— Pierre Corneille

Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

— Pierre Corneille

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

— Pierre Corneille

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

— Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

— Pierre Corneille

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

— Pierre Corneille

“Laksanakanlah kewajiban anda sebaik-baiknya, selebihnya serahkan kepada Tuhan.”

— Pierre Corneille