Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. — Pierre Corneille Birth Copy Share Image
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. — Pierre Corneille Happiness Copy Share Image
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. — Pierre Corneille Disease Copy Share Image
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. — Pierre Corneille Happiness Copy Share Image
Such is the caprice of Romans... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives. — Pierre Corneille Inspirational Copy Share Image
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. — Pierre Corneille Beautiful Copy Share Image
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image