Pierre Corneille

Dramatist

1606-06-06

Books by Pierre Corneille

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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
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Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
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Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
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We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
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My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
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Reason and love are sworn enemies.
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How delicious is pleasure after torment!
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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
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Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
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To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
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When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
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He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
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True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
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He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.
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Time often serves to justify a deed Which seems at first unjustifiable.
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Do your duty, and leave the rest to the gods.
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All evils are equal when they are extreme.
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