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I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.
— Pierre Corneille
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
— Pierre Corneille
One is often guilty by being too just.
— Pierre Corneille
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
— Pierre Corneille
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
— Pierre Corneille
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. — Pierre Corneille
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
— Pierre Corneille
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
— Pierre Corneille
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
— Pierre Corneille
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
— Pierre Corneille
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
— Pierre Corneille
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
— Pierre Corneille
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
— Pierre Corneille
How sweet to die after one's enemies.
— Pierre Corneille
Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa.
— Corneille Ewango
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
— Pierre Corneille
The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.
— Pierre Corneille
Happiness is meant to be shared.
— Pierre Corneille
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
— Pierre Corneille
I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.
— Corneille Ewango
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
— Pierre Corneille
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
— Pierre Corneille
How much must I overcome before I triumph?
— Pierre Corneille
What destroys one man preserves another.
— Pierre Corneille
I would not like a king who could obey.
— Pierre Corneille
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
— Pierre Corneille
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
— Pierre Corneille
The greater the effort, the greater the glory. — Pierre Corneille
It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
— Pierre Corneille
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
— Pierre Corneille
All great virtues become great men.
— Pierre Corneille
In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
— Pierre Corneille
Happiness seems made to be shared.
— Pierre Corneille
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
— Pierre Corneille
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — Pierre Corneille
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
— Pierre Corneille
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
— Pierre Corneille
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
— Pierre Corneille
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
— Pierre Corneille
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
— Pierre Corneille
He who despises life is his life's master.
— Pierre Corneille
Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
— Pierre Corneille
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.
— Pierre Corneille
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
— Pierre Corneille
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
— Pierre Corneille
Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
— Pierre Corneille
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
— Pierre Corneille
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
— Pierre Corneille
Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!
— Pierre Corneille
Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.
— Pierre Corneille
I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.
— Pierre Corneille
that darkling brightness which falls from the stars.
— Pierre Corneille
Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.
— Corneille Ewango
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
— Pierre Corneille
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
— Pierre Corneille
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
— Pierre Corneille
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
— Pierre Corneille
Doubt, but still hate!
— Pierre Corneille
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
— Pierre Corneille
It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.
— Pierre Corneille
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
— Pierre Corneille
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
— Pierre Corneille
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
— Pierre Corneille
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
— Pierre Corneille
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
— Pierre Corneille
Your arm is unvanquished, but not invincible.
— Pierre Corneille
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
— Pierre Corneille
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.
— Pierre Corneille
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.
— Pierre Corneille
Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.
— Pierre Corneille
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
— Pierre Corneille
It matters more how one gives than what one gives.
— Pierre Corneille
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
— Pierre Corneille
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
— Pierre Corneille
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
— Pierre Corneille
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
— Pierre Corneille
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.
— Pierre Corneille
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
— Pierre Corneille
In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.
— Pierre Corneille
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
— Pierre Corneille
It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.
— Pierre Corneille
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
— Pierre Corneille
Peace is produced by war.
— Pierre Corneille
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
— Pierre Corneille
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
— Pierre Corneille
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
— Pierre Corneille
He who pardons easily invites offense.
— Pierre Corneille
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
— Pierre Corneille
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
— Pierre Corneille
Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.
— Pierre Corneille
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
— Pierre Corneille
Patience and time conquer all things.
— Pierre Corneille
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
— Pierre Corneille
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
— Pierre Corneille
The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders.
— Pierre Corneille
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
— Pierre Corneille
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
— Pierre Corneille