Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneillewas a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth6 June 1606
CountryFrance
other-half half graves
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
fear powerful should
Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
shame crime
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
dare ifs
Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
love love-is tyrants
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
giving heaven gains
Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.
evil equal good-evil
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
firsts crime impulse
A first impulse was never a crime.
threat fear-not
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
learning triumph conquer
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
ambition has-beens sated
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
revenge punishment doe
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
ambition summit
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
kindness violence vain
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.