Quotes by Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

French playwright

Alive from: 1606-1684

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

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  A liar is full of oaths.

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  All evils are equal when they are extreme.

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  Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

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  Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

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  Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

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  Happiness seems made to be shared.

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  I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

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  It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

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  Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

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  Love is a tyrant sparing none.

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  One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

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  Peace is produced by war.

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  Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

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  The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.