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Inspirational Quotes by Pierre Corneille
- Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
- Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
- Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
- He who fears not death fears not a threat.
- A first impulse was never a crime.
- All evils are equal when they are extreme.
- Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
- The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
- Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
- 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.
- To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible
- He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life
- One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
- It takes good memory to keep up a lie
- It matters more how one gives than what one gives
- My sweetest hope is to lose hope
- He who allows me to rule is in fact my master
- Rome alone can resist Rome.
- To myself alone do I owe my fame.
- Ambition aspires to descend
- A liar is full of oaths.
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