Pierre Corneille

Patience and time conquer all things.

— Pierre Corneille

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

— Pierre Corneille

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

— Pierre Corneille

Rome alone can resist Rome.

— Pierre Corneille

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

— Pierre Corneille

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

— Pierre Corneille

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

— Pierre Corneille

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

— Pierre Corneille

Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

— Pierre Corneille

“A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire.”

— Pierre Corneille

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

— Pierre Corneille

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

— Pierre Corneille

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

— Pierre Corneille

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

— Pierre Corneille

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

— Pierre Corneille

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

— Pierre Corneille

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre…

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the…

— Pierre Corneille

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

— Pierre Corneille

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

— Pierre Corneille

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

— Pierre Corneille

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]

— Pierre Corneille

Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Pierre Corneille

He who fears not death fears not a threat.

— Pierre Corneille

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

— Pierre Corneille

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

— Pierre Corneille

Brave men are brave from the very first.

— Pierre Corneille

“Va, je ne te hais point.”

— Pierre Corneille

It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.

— Pierre Corneille

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

— Pierre Corneille

He who despises life is his life's master.

— Pierre Corneille

A first impulse was never a crime.

— Pierre Corneille

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

— Pierre Corneille

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

— Pierre Corneille

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

— Pierre Corneille

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

— Pierre Corneille

Happiness seems made to be shared.

— Pierre Corneille