20 Quotes By Pierre Corneille

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Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Pierre Corneille on age

Every man of courage is a man of his word.
Pierre Corneille on courage

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Pierre Corneille on death

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille on death

Each instant of life is a step toward death.
Pierre Corneille on death

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Pierre Corneille on fear

Happiness seems made to be shared.
Pierre Corneille on happiness

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille on happiness

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

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
Pierre Corneille on hope

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille on nature

Peace is produced by war.
Pierre Corneille on peace

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille on power

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

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille on sad

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Pierre Corneille on sympathy

Peace is produced by war.
Pierre Corneille on war

Every man of courage is a man of his word.
Pierre Corneille on courage

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

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille on risk