Desire Quote by Pierre Corneille Download Open image “The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.” — Pierre Corneille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Kings Monarchy Power Prudent Want
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men. — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As king, your desires must be stronger than any other. You must be more magnificent, more easily angered than everyone else! He should be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire...… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. — John Milton Copy Share Image
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself. — Rumi 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 hundred kings. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
