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
pleasure ruling generous
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
sweetest loses
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
fame
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
liars lying oath
A liar is full of oaths.
meant-to-be
Happiness is meant to be shared.
glory virtue crime
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
enemy weakness knows
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
fate soul age
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.
kings war flames
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
power omnipotence
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
threat fear-not
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
giving heaven gains
Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.
dare ifs
Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
father impossible nothing-is-impossible
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible