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
fire slumber ashes
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
men every-man
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
woe
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
kings
I would not like a king who could obey.
believe i-believe knows
I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
sweet heart reign
Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.
gratitude grateful sadness
Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
ambition aspire
Ambition aspires to descend
fame
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
sweetest loses
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
past destiny order
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past
memories lying good-memories
It takes good memory to keep up a lie
memories lying good-memories
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
infamy unworthy
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life