Love Quotes by Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

— Pierre Corneille

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

— Pierre Corneille

Happiness is meant to be shared.

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

— Pierre Corneille

Rome alone can resist Rome.

— Pierre Corneille

I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.

— Pierre Corneille

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

— Pierre Corneille

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

— Pierre Corneille

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

— Pierre Corneille

Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

— Pierre Corneille