Pierre Corneille Quotes
- Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
- Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
- Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
- Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
- We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
- He who fears not death fears not a threat.
- A first impulse was never a crime.
- All evils are equal when they are extreme.
- Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.
- Love is a tyrant sparing none.
- Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
- Brave men are brave from the very first.
- The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
- Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
- Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.
- The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
- Every man of courage is a man of his word.
- They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
- Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
- Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.