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
pardon offense invites
He who pardons easily invites offense.
honor disgrace
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
powerful crime enough
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
rebel awareness masters
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
feelings reason authority
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
birthday enemy despair
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
kings husband father
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
beautiful country fate
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
disease patient remedy
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
sympathy sweet ties
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained
confidence too-much danger
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
force gentleness
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
life inspire steps
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
world clemency monarchs
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.